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Originally Posted by classicman
Ha! Thanks, that made me smile.
My "staunch conservative" friends think I'm a liberal.
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It's a spectrum, and a very very relative one. I live in fucking BURLINGTON, VERMONT - possibly one of the most liberal small cities in America. To me, you seem to tend to be on the staunchly - but
not usually absurdly - conservative side of most issues. I probably have a different idea of "moderate" than a lot of people - I consider Obama to be VERY moderate if not almost conservative (given that most of his policy positions, and especially his compromises, are positions that were held predominately by REPUBLICANS as conservative alternatives to liberal positions less than fifteen years ago, and the rest of the country has at least on social issues moved LEFT), while my impression is that you consider him to be fairly liberal, and generally certainly more liberal than yourself. I apologise if that's a misinterpretation or mischaracterization, but while I'm sure there are people that consider you to be to their left or even far left, from where I sit you look pretty staunchly conservative,
but tend to take defensible (and therefore sometimes moderate)
positions.
tl;dr: I feel like I disagree with you frequently but can usually respect your position, and so I would call you a staunch conservative but not a loony right-wing nutjob
