Are you a Conservative, Moderate, or a Liberal
 

Please do not turn this polling thread into a political pile on. In fact I would like it if you only explain why you categorized yourself as you do in the poll.

Mods: I am asking a little tolerance here in asking you to allow this to stay on the main page for the remainder of the week so as to maximize the respondents.

Thanks Vlad

I guess I will vote moderate since I am mixed on many issues.

For instance, I support the war in Iraq but I also support gay marriage.

Edit: right-leaning moderate.

MODS, please move this to the DC forum... :p




Conservative... mostly Economic...

Independent

The two party system needs to expand.

Ditto.

:spock:

he didn't ask for party affiliation. ;)

Independent


:harumph:

Conservative.

I work for a living.

meh... democrat, republican, right, left, they're all full of sh*t

-EB-

Conservative

Right leaning moderate

left leaning moderate...


foreign policy - conservative

social policy - liberal

governmental - moderate

Move to DC. Vlad knows better than to post this here.

:grr: you forgot the word asshole in your self discription

Economically Moderate

Socially Liberal :P

Nah, I only introduced facts with my post. :)

then it should read like this...
:)

Right leaning moderate would be the closest I guess. Mostly I am a mix of Capitalism and Libertarianism.

heh :p

Centrist. I appreciate the balance of the warring ideologies. I see the folly of both of them apart. I see harmony in their balance.

No Skip, I am trying to get the broadest range of responses. I have asked everyone not to turn this into a political venting, just state their position on their philosophical leaning. I hope it can be here for the remainder of the week then it can be moved. The poll is set to expire in 6 days.

don't we have a subforum for this crap

I think you lean to the left, ever so slightly.

It's just a very simple question. I don't see any "stirring of the pot" going on.

:shrug:

That's funny.

go bo say you no likee, you no clickee...


problem solved...

give me a damned minute, fer chrissake...

Left Leaning Mod.

Or as I always say: I'm a liberal in Texas, but a Conservative in California.

Left leaning moderate. I'm a capitalist who believes in sharing the wealth.

But not with you.

No one will cop to being a true blue liberal. Interesting.

What is that?

I consider myself different from most because i don't care what the hell people do as long as they don't f with me. i don't like war or violence. i don't care for guns but think people should be able to do what ever they want as long as it don't hurt anyone but them.

Great question.

Socially I'm with you. As long as you pursuing your happiness doesn't infring on any one else's rights to life, liberty, or the pursuit of happiness then go right ahead and do it. It's all good. Gay marriage? Why not let them suffer, too? Sex with your goat? Whatever. Just don't ask me to watch or, frankly, give a s**t what you're doing.

Fiscally I'm very conservative. The govt. needs to get the hell out of my pocket and get back to only doing the very few things the Constitution said they should. This trillion dollar budget crap is just that: crap.

Foreign policy I'm a real mix. I would cut off nearly all foreign aid, I'd bring our troops home from just about everywhere. However, I'd also be bombing Iraq and Korea into the stone age. Psychos don't need nukes.

It's really amazing how alike we really are. Seriously.

Sounds like you have a lot of libertarian views.

I was just laying out the kindling :D

Left-leaning moderate.

Abortion, welfare, gun control, affirmative action: conservative

Taxes, government, defense: moderate

Environment, education, gay marriage: liberal

Immigration: no thoughts on it

War in general: moderate

War in Iraq: against, though the majority of reasons for supporting or rejecting the war which I've heard from people are not particularly based upon broadly conservative or liberal viewpoints, but rather upon specific incidents, so Iraq is sort of outside the whole conservative/liberal paradigm.

I don't.

I have tendancies toward both spectrums based on my over-arching philosophies of Libertarianism, Individualism, and Objectivism.

I also think what passes as Conservativism in today's political landscape is a farce, and am critical of it because of this belief. Thus, I am painted as a Liberal, mostly from indoctrined neo-conservatives who believe in Conservativism to the point that it crosses their theological boundaries in a way that they disagree with. That's when you'll see State's Rights "conservatives" become theological liberals, ready to force their will on you by act of government. I hate that crap.

Liberal. Blame it on growing up in California. :)

i changed my mind after i saw what bush is doing with the gas prices

moderate conserative.

leaning slightly to the right, i'm against gun control. i personally don't agree with abortion, but i also believe the gov needs to quit making decisions for me, so i think that people should have the choice. i disagree with supporting the non workers, even though i'm presently without work.
most of all though i'm anti coruption. which pretty much makes me anti-poltician.

It's me and you as the only Liberal votes.........I admit to be very liberal.

I did one of those graphs and got........Economic Left/Right: -6.25
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.46

So yea I'm very liberal........

Yeah... if this site wasn't based in the midwest something tells me we wouldn't be the only self-proclaimed liberals in the bunch. It's okay though... I like being different. :p

I would guess that there are some in the Left leaning moderate group that are not voting liberal because of how it looks on the board.

Does ending up smack-dab in the center of the politicalcompass graph make one a centrist?

Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: 0.00
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -0.46

I consider myself non partisan(though I voted for left leaning moderate). I've never understood people who vote strictly partisan. In my opinion, our system of government is one of the most broken democracies in the world. It seems to no longer represent the people...more of a representation of big money, special interest groups, religous groups etc., more than the common man. I blame this partially on the lack of real choice, the 2 party system, and lack of voter participation(which may be a caused by the 1st two).

I'm either a liberal or a left-leaning moderate, that much is clear. I selected liberal, however. I'm not entirely sure I'm far enough over for that title, but I'm not afraid of it, so why not.

CONSERVATIVE.

"Keep your laws off of my body"

Don't know what I am.

I'm wearing blue booties, must be a boy.....

Oh, and I always vote Libertarian.

I don't know how to classify myself on the poll. I guess I don't fit any of them.

Always the oddball.....

Somewhat to the right of George W. Bush, and somewhat to the left of Adolf Hitler. Does that make me a centrist?

Adding my name to the few, the proud, the not-scared-to-get-ridiculed, the liberal.

I'm a bleeding heart liberal.

Your numbers look like a prescription for contacts.

Me, I'm an apathetic, I don't care politics and the constant bashing that goes on between the people in the arena.

I am moderately conservative. I was brought up in a conservative home.

Not a european, but an American liberal.

right leaning moderate

John Kerry and his allies in the press tried to steal the election!!













:p

Nice haiku.

I'm right leaning to center, but there should be a poll or link to a test (I remember an online test to see where one is on the quadrant of behavior make-up one has. If anyone knows about that, please link it.)

Are you conservative, depending on response to abortion, gay relationships? I saw an article on all 14 gay republicans in JOCO. I figured that was an oxymoron until reading the link on Abe Lincoln's view of what to do with the slaves.

These terms are bullshit, for the most part. I don't think people make these types of decisions, their decisions don't make their types.

Yeah, I've taken that one before. As I recall, it's a pretty piss-poor poll overall. Many of the questions are loaded and leave a lot to be desired.

Far right conservative

According to some poll in DC a while back, I'm a Centrist with Totalitarian leanings.

So don't **** with me, or I'll see to it your nuts are removed when I rule the universe.

South Park conservative.

Get a haircut, ya dang hippie.

Kind of what I thought.

A homosexual? NTTAWWT.

I'm a moderate, and I work for a living, too.

"My name is Brian Kelly, and I'm from Dublin, Ireland. And I hate the English and black people!"

Yep, must be a liberal.... :p

Too bad you couldn't make that in Jeff Foxworthy's voice.


YOOoooouuuuu, might be a liberal....:)

If yeeewww, find yerself cursing softly in the middle of Whole Foods, because you forgot to bring the larger of your hemp reusable grocery bags and won't be able to stock up on 'Organic 365'™ pesticide-free soy milk like you'd planned. . .

definite liberal

Well I believe we need to guard the borders with flamethrowers and stop giving illegal aliens social security. I also believe we need to stop sending our jobs overseas and force American businesses to keep theirlabor pools here. However I am against the war and think that using an an attack by an Afghanistan based terrorist cell to justify an attack on Iraq, so that Cheney and his old cronies at Haliburton can line their pockets is a sham.I think"supporting our troops" should mean bringing them home now so they can live out their lives. Thanks to Bush ,I now believe our presidential candidates should have to take a televised I.Q. test before taking office. I'm against prayer in school since this country is made up of people from many different religions and having a class pray to just one is hypocritical. I'm for first trimester abortion regardless of the situation the mother is in if she feels she wants one. however I'm against partial birth and late term abortions.

I also believe in a maximum wage, however we should get rid of welfare except for mothers that were bailed on by deadbeat dads and people unable to work. And getting rid of medicare is just freaking stupid.

Hope that clears things up.

commie

That's ****ed up.

ROFL

And this is why TJ is a pussy, and has no credibility. He claims to like everything yet give no specific answer, people like New Chief should be commended for being one way and tags himself to be that way.
TJ, you are a dumb fug flaming dick nose who knows nothing about anything outside of leftist propaganda, the Chiefs Planet DC Forum and the Denver Broncos.

Quit painting an abstract picture of your so called "beliefs" and choose a side, you cannot be on both - you flaming pussified, dickhead.

signed,

Your Conservative Recovering Drug Addict (did you hear that quicksilver! RECOVERING, picked myself up off the Detroit pavement), Cancer Surviving Republican Nightmare!

Good call. I agree w/ everything this post says except

Abortion - if you werent raped. If you can't take care of a baby keep your damn legs closed. This OTC morning after pill is going to turn our youth into a bunch of dirty sluts.

Maximum Wage? WTF, unlimited earning potential is what makes us better than Canada.

Immigration - there are legal ways for people to come to this country and I have no problem w/ that. It is the illegal ones that can't get a driver's license, buy car insurance, can't go to jail, can't pay taxes, work for cash and send it to mexico. the list goes on and on.