Kerry Serves as Jury Foreman

[Kevin]

Originally posted by hoosier
Just think of my posts as "equal time"

Since the conservatives on GC are outnumbered 50-2 (possible even 100-2), and there's not one known moderator who even knows a conservative, someone has too sacrifice everyone's love and affection and post conservative. Just before he died, Ronald Reagan appointed me for life to be a conservative GC poster.

Not one known moderator who even knows a conservative? Well, I'm the Sigma Nu moderator, and a self-professed conservative. I guess that counts?

The difference is that each party puts out some things that can be looked upon by their respective members as viable ideas/products. There are other things that are simply handouts to special interest groups -- the religious wack jobs for the (R) party vs the environmentalist/socialist folks on the (D) side.

There's a point where you have to realize that Republicans are not conservatives and Democrats are not liberals -- the respective parties are just team names. Their platforms have become so diluted because of each group's respective effort to enlarge its 'tent' that for any one individual to blindly parrot the party line either means that the individual doing so is incapable of thinking for themselves, too lazy to do so, or they are simply guilty of being willfully ignorant.

Parties aren't interested in the common good, they're interested in power.

PS: During my earlier days, I once spoke to Herman B Wells - a Sigma Nu and the most pro-fraternity major Univ. pres. ever. I think he was a liberal dem, though.

He passed away a couple of years ago. From what I understand, he was a terrific man.