Reply #42: Partisan talking points

[kctim]

based on the false assumption that the progressive position is anywhere near the moderate position.

IF you were correct, why are moderates replacing 'blue dogs' with Republicans, instead of Democrats who support a public option or even UHC?

I agree with your second paragraph, but you err in believing that YOU get to decide what is considered pro-corporate or what is denying gays their civil rights. Are you seriously suggesting that President Obama, black Americans, latino Americans and every other American who does not believe as you, is a Republican?

Sorry, but the quickest way to get a President Palin is for the Democratic Party to splinter apart. All this rhetoric of us being so far right now is as silly as the right wing rhetoric saying we are now a socialist country. Both sides are so partisan blind that you label the majority in the middle who dares not agree with you as being brainwashed or extremists. Why? Because fear is more convincing than the policy you peddle. Pitiful.

On that BTW you offer, I apologize. You see, us moderates understand the need for effective government AND the need and desire for individual rights to be protected. We don't see things as black and white as the fringe does, so we don't jump to false conclusions that one is a socialist for saying government could do this, or that one is a right-wing loon for saying they don't want government doing that.

Anyways, like it or not, the amount of government in our personal lives is what defines us a far-left, left, right and far-right.

And lastly, come on. You may be totally off-base and lost, but you are not crashing and burning so bad that you have to resort to direct or indirect name-calling and labeling, so I have no idea why you think you need to add them.