> My point is that a lot more people identify themselves as conservatives than > liberals, so a conservative (or, as Dana puts it, a guy who is not really a > conservative) has a better chance of getting elected than a liberal.
I would agree with this. If you examine the candidates and what they say about themselves, you will see that hardly anyone calls themselves a liberal. On the other hand, candidates are quick to throw the liberal label on their opponents. Even in Republican primaries, the candidates call each other liberal. I am not saying that there are not liberal politicians, they just don't call themselves liberal. They use progressive or some other term. So, why would candidates refuse to call themselves liberal? Probably because most people are more conservative than liberal (I am not saying in terms of party affiliation here, I mean everyday life-what you let your kids watch on TV, who they associate with, where they go to school, etc. ) On the other hand, many candidates are quick to take up the conservative mantle and actually label themselves conservative. However, many of these politicians are not in truth conservative. Hell, Bush isn't really conservative. He spends just as bad as any liberal. >Yeah, and Bush ran on a ticket of restoring dignity to the White >House...*stifles a chuckle*. No, Bush ran on a ticket of "I am not Al Gore and I am not like Bill Clinton", hence I am not liberal. >Clinton had a terrific image with the independent voters. Gore spent so much >time trying to get himself out of Clinton's shadow...maybe he should have >just grabbed onto Bill's coat tails instead. I voted for Clinton twice and I was a registered independent. I did not have a good image of him and most of the people I knew though he was sleazy. However, I thought he was better than the alternatives (Most of the time, when I vote these days, I am voting against one candidate, not for a candidate). One of the main reasons he won the first election was the "Ross Perot" factor siphoning votes from Bush. The second election was a victory over a fossil. Not exatly great politics. Anyway, I am sure the democrats will screw up the next election as well. They will probably nominate Hillary. The media loves her and they tell you that all of America loves her. Alas, I think they are making some assumptions there. I know a lot of people, and all of them can't stand her. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:215024 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
