4th March 2010, 7:10 AM
Quote:Wrong. I'm a moderate conservative who votes Republican. I am not a right-wing republican. My atheism and hatred of the rich moderate my values. I suppose I transcend all political spectrums. I straddle them all. But, I choose to identify as a moderate conservative. And so it is.
Quote:FIERCELY anti-abortion, pro-personal-freedom, pro-small-government, anti-illegal-immigrant, to name a few.
Anti-illegal-immigrant is not a moderate position... and for the most part nor is anti-abortion...
The pro personal freedom part though does sound more Libertarian; Republicans don't exactly care much about that beyond lip-service. But of course with the rise of the Tea Party movement, Libertarianism seems to be gaining ground in Republican circles... witness how Ron Paul of all people won the CPAC conference vote!
"Pro-small government" in theory while doing nothing of the sort in practice is, of course, Republican bread and butter. (Note that the size of government grew substantially, not shrank, under W. ... and despite more recent attempts for Republicans to distance themselves from him and such, sorry, at the time you were all behind him most of the way.)