Yes. Centrist conservatives like me are at about a zero on the political scale. While my position is that we should FREEZE the federal government spending amount for 10 years while we REPRIORITIZE what we spend on to what the constitution specifies the federal government spend on and do so with continued generosity (just not an increase) that position may be TO THE RIGHT of Republicans and Democrats but it is a ZERO on the political scale whether you like it or not.

This country has been moving left for over 75 years (since 1930) and the left keeps getting loonier with their position that Republicans are extreme.

Most of my disagreements with Republicans are because Republicans are voting and verbalizing to the left on issues of importance. We basically have 2 major parties that are to the left of center but one is even more left (the Democrats) and makes up even more non-facts.

Try to look for a moment Raf at Libertarians position of wanting to cut government by 80% and you’ll see very well that there is a political center. Who do you think occupies it? It is people like me and their are a lot of us out there.

We don’t understand why when the President offers for the first time federal spending on stem cell research that’s called a ban by you lefties AND… we don’t understand why the federal government had to spend on it anyway when the private sector has been and is doing the research far more effectively and efficiently. The objections have nothing to do with religious reasons for me though I find those objections compelling also because when it comes to our federal government doing things they should always strive to do things ethically. Let only private citizens do things with their own money in unethical ways and if they cross a LEGAL boundary then … ah I digressed.

But you get the point. And the main stream press barely ever understands or espouses a conservative’s viewpoint so the left argues against extremes because they NEVER take the time to understand the conservative’s position or what a conservative has said.

They’ll setup situations like Anom does and did where he’ll say that there was no connection between 9/11 terrorists and Iraq. Why does Anom say that? Because he NEVER took the time to understand the conservative position. He read main stream media or even more leftist sources and had his own mind convinced that conservatives went into Iraq because there was a connection.

Although there were Al Qaida folks who have been documented to have met with Saddam and been based in Iraq it was never a conservative position to say that there was a connection between 9/11 and Iraq.

It would behoove you and Anom (in order to debate well) to do the following:
1) Stop throwing out inaccurate attacks/accusations
2) Understand the conservative position
3) Try to come to an understanding of both sides of a debate (instead of feeling like you care and Republicans/conservatives are mean and evil and don’t care) so that you can understand how we have come to our position.

You might disagree with us, but it would help if you try to convince us that your POLICY position is better as opposed to just attacking and accusing (the pattern that exists by so many leftists including Anom and Darkstar and Actus).

While each of your positions is slightly different the pattern of attacking and accusing and misrepresenting is the same.

Thanks.

I have to say, though, that as much as I disagree with folks like Rafael Daniel and Anomalocaris, they’ve got their share of guts sticking their heads into the hornets nest of a conservative blog.

You might as well give it up. The MSM operates in the same belief system as Anomalocaris, so he will never see it, or believe it, until he has his own personal epiphany (if ever).

Back to school, RedBeard.

I don’t actually subscribe to that rather abusive view, but I do admit that I cannot understand the reasons for holding a liberal philosophy. It just makes to logical sense to support big government, the nanny state, wealth redistribution, unilateral pacifism, racial pigeonholing, gun control, political correctness, moral relativity, outcome-based education, softness on crime, unlimited abortion on demand, and the surrendering of sovereignty to the U.N.