Good call.

I have Liberal and Conservative tendencies, so I'd say Moderate or right in the middle.

For purposes of voting:

Canada-I've only voted NDP

U.S. - If I had voting privileges, I'd vote for more Dems than Reps..

Registered Demo. I usually vote Demo but if any of the other candidates I agree with, I'll vote for them. I used to be Peace and Freedom but became disillusioned with them. I saw more changes with the two major partys

Republican, though more on the moderate side. There are issues I keep with an open mind. Such as, as much as I'm oppose to abortion, I feel it's good to impose my values on others and hence let the mother choose what she feels would be the best.

:D

staunch cold blooded mean conservative Republican right here. :p

Like PP, Libertarian, but reg. as Republican. I used to be reg. as a Libertarian, but the party was disbanded in my state. :eek:

registered as not affiliated, vote democrat.

Republican convert. Used to vote Dems but then I started earning money and wanted to hold on to it. HA! With regards to other issues I tend to be fairly liberal.

I am a Republican. I am a fiscal conservative and a social moderate (leaning right). I could vote for a moderate (as long as there was no better conservative candidate) but never for a liberal.

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I really hope in '08 we can get a canidate to run for the KISS Army party.

*crosses fingers*

I registered as a Republican when I turned 18, but I don't quite self-identify with the party anymore. Never have been a big fan of Dubya and I don't agree with many of his policies. I do have strong Libertarian leanings (fiscally conservative, socially liberal) and if a viable candidate were to ever run for public office I would be inclined vote that way.

Far left liberal here. Sometimes my views sway (slightly) depending on the issue....
I think people should be allowed freedoms of their body (like abortion), allowed access to (higher) education, freedom of speech and press, but call me a hypocrite but things like gun control I think are necessary....

I think also that religion should be separate from the state, but it is also a part of our culture, it's a matter of respect for other people (and their beliefs) (also, the extreme views where people hurt others is not ok, though I mean... what would we have thought of the crusades had they occurred now?? )

I also tend to shy away from political/ religious debate... I try to respect and listen to what others believe... I'm not going to change them or they change me, but perhaps we can learn something from each other. :o

conservative. i love our country and am grateful that we have thousands of men and women willing to put their lives on the line so that these far left wackjobs can burn our flag legally because it is "freedom of speech".
makes me sick that this goes on. mark cuban and michael moore=complete morons that need to get out if they have such a problem with America

on the topic of immigration, get rid of all illegals. if you can't come into our country legally than quit living off of our tax dollars and get your ass out.

pro-death penalty

there was a time for affirmative action but that time is over and everyone needs to be judged based on merit, not race

SUPPORT OUR TROOPS!!!

I'm a Demupliberal.

I am loyal to the democratic party for simple agenda reasons, but my political philosophy aligns with objectivism which is often related to but is definitely not libertarian, because individual rights are up to the individual, and therefor socially liberal, but economically capitalist. Humans have a right to three things: police, military, and educations. Those are the only three functions needed from the government. But individuals have the right to decide to take advantage of those rights, and therefor taxes should be voluntary. Obviously, this won't work in the world we live in with the red tape we live in, but that is where my philosophy alligns.

I know you say that your philosophy wouldn't work in the real world, but I have to ask, hypothetically speaking, how would one go about not taking advantage of the right of having a military when the military functions at the behest of the government, not individuals? On the flip side of that, how would you be able to fund a military if you have a lot of people who don't want to pay for it?

Easy Question! Again, this is all hypothetical and ideal, but I will always vote according to who is the closest to achieving it. A military in this case would not consist of evil dictators who invade countries and then drain the countries money by staying there too long all the while throwing money at the people so his approval rating can go up ultimately causing the country more in debt (yeah, im not a G.W fan). No, the sense of military that would be considered under objectivism is a national gaurd and a coast gaurd. We wouldn't need protection from other countries because all business would be done based on free business that individuals create, etc. Secondly, who wouldn't pay for themselves to be protected and for their children to get educated? Obviously, some, but paying taxes would be in the interest of most. Third, not spending money on ridiculous bureaucracy would mean taxes would be even less, i.e. much more affordable, and more money would be able to be invested in education and protection.

Now, this relies on social and economic Darwinism, which is why I don't label myself a democrat. I think, yeah, it could go drastically sour, but believe you me that I have done MORE then my fair share of research on this crap, debate economic professors and analyst, and at the end of every debate, we all found a freedom of business and who you do business with means more economic competition, and competition boosts the economy more so then strongholds of the government that generally select who survives and who doesn't.

Now, for all of you who are looking at this and thinking I am totally deluded or off my mark a bit, that's fine, and hell you may be right, but I over-think these things, I mean, all I do is sit and think about this stuff, and I have managed to convince myself that this is the ultimate situation for a thriving world. If that makes me deranged, well I will then be the first to call myself that. Again, to do such an act, set up such a structure, we would need a clean slate, and there is no way we can get there, hell, not in the world we live in, so it still sits as a hypothetical theory, and will probably always be there

lets resurrect this thread now that we're well into primary season and things are getting heated! I am proud to be a liberal! ps- OBAMA '08!

I'm very conservative. I disagree with some of what the GOP does, especially the way it appeals to single issue voters, but It is the most valid outlet I have for my preferences.

I vote on personal autonomy and responsibility lines. The socialistic tendencies of the American left scare me, as does the movement of political correctness. I fear especially falling victim to the PC plague that is overtaking Europe, as I think it has made them easy prey to the clutches of Islamofascism (which is making strides in many EU countries).

Regionalist libertarian.

Speak softly and carry a big stick. And a bigger gun.

free markets and free minds, please.

Would've voted for Ron Paul. Probably still will.

Democrat all the way :D. I'd like to see most DLC members & Blue Dog Democrats run out of office. If you're not part of the solution you're part of the problem.

I turned 18 just before the last presidential elections and registered Republican. While I support many of the GOP's issues, I also disagree on many of them. I am not a huge fan of Dubya, but I am very conservative so I voted for him over Kerry in 2004.

I am a fiscal moderate, I hate the fact we are in a decifict and we are borrowing money from China. But I am also against high tax rates.

I am socially conservative, but not hard core.

Republican. Go McCain!

I'm a registered Democrat. This is my first presidential election (I'm 20)!

I'm sorry.

i can finally vote this year, haven't decided which party to register with though (leaning towards Republican)

Ill probably register republican, but im very moderate. I have no clue who im going to vote for.

Oh hush. :rolleyes: :p


Despite popular belief, I'm definitely a Democrat. However, I vote conservatively on a handful of issues...In Europe that would make me a Christian Democrat. I wish we had the political party here, but I guess I'll just have to move to Switzerland. :shrug: Anywho, I'm a Dem though not entirely liberal and would have no trouble voting for a Republican if I thought s/he would do a better job.

They're called Christian Democrat, but they don't amount to anything more than socialists, honestly. The major "right" parties in Europe are mostly to the left of Democrats.

You don't know much about right wing politics in Europe!

Ditto for me.:)

The major parties (that get over 20% of the vote) are not right wing. However, parties like the Nationaldemokratische Partei Deutschlands in Germany, Le Pen's party in France (can't think of the name off the top of my head), Freedom Party in Austria, are extremelyy right wing, but more in the "nationalist racist" way, then in the free-market "classically liberal" way. Even then the NPD usually doesn't get more than 5% of the vote. Le Pen who went in the runoff for the Presidency only got like 15%.

I worked with the Freie Demokratische Partei in Germany for several months which is the only major classically liberal party in Germany and it generally garners less than 15% of the vote (in certain areas, far less than that). Furthermore, in terms of "classical liberalism" the FDP is something more akin to Republicans than actual Free Marketers.

The neofascists like Le Pen are indeed rather marginalized today, but that wasn't necessarily always the case in recent history. I just hesitate to say that the Front National is totally irrelevant... It is the third largest party. Even today, they poll significantly better in the first round elections than say the Communists, who used to be a more significant party in France. Although if you combined far left/revolutionary candidates I suppose it would be more than Le Pen or at least equal, but they're very disorganized obviously.

UMP is also more conservative (I think) than you're giving it credit for. It's Liberal-conservative/Gaullist. And Gaullism (I think) is a very conservative movement, although it doesn't always appear that way to Americans because Gaullism includes thumbing your nose at the US to some degree...

eh. I'll leave it there. I don't know enough about modern German politics to discuss it intelligently.

LOL. Just looking back on this.

I no longer consider myself a liberal democrat. I would now call myself (depending on who I'm talking to) a post-leftist, an anarchist, or a libertarian.

Grad school does that to you.

awesome.

I'm a post-modern situationist.

You're right, grown up politics are way more fun.

Helms is dead
 

RALEIGH, N.C. - Former Sen. Jesse Helms, who built a career along the fault lines of racial politics and battled liberals, Communists and the occasional fellow Republican during 30 conservative years in Congress, died on the Fourth of July. He was 86

"It's just incredible that he would die on July 4, the same day of the Declaration of Independence and the same day that Thomas Jefferson and John Adams died, and he certainly is a patriot in the mold of those great men," said former North Carolina GOP Rep. Bill Cobey, the chairman of The Jesse Helms Center in Wingate, N.C.

Helms died at 1:15 a.m, the center said. He died in Raleigh of natural causes, said former chief of staff Jimmy Broughton.

"He was very comfortable," Broughton said.

Funeral arrangements were pending, the Helms center said.

"America lost a great public servant and true patriot today," White House spokesman Scott Stanzel said.

Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky said few senators could match Helms' reputation.

"Today we lost a Senator whose stature in Congress had few equals. Senator Jesse Helms was a leading voice and courageous champion for the many causes he believed in," McConnell said in a statement.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080704/..._us/obit_helms

tree-hugging, flag-burning, pinko commie LIBERAL!

Which pretty much means I vote with the Democratic party in major elections.

The funny thing is, growing up on the west side of Madison, Wisconsin, I thought I was a "moderate Republican," mainly because I supported the death penalty in some cases, and was bitter about affirmative action in college admissions. Those are really the only two issues I've changed my mind about, and now sometimes I feel like I'm off the liberal deep end. But it feels great!

Obama Biden 08!

and, of course, these are my own freely shared opinions, and do not represent opinions of GPB, etc...