A cursory search of gathergroups indicates that 524 of them admit to leaning to the left, 865 to the right, 89 are self-declared conservatives and 20 call themselves centrists. With all the polls clip-boarding their way around America's malls, I thought it might be interesting to see where my fellow gatherites place themselves on the political spectrum.
To borrow Nippy's criteria, no creative content here, so ratings are n/a. However, answers to the title question, debate, argument, name-calling, invective and vitriol are heartily encouraged. As is threadjacking and snark.
Let the hilarity begin!
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I use rating as a sign that I have clicked on the stars somewhere and thus know that I've been here before and don't have to read the article again and can talk about whatever I feel like.
Of course, I'm managing to do that anyway.
Uh, yeah. I'm way left of center.
Don't ask me my weight or the temperature either. All I know is 16 Celsius equals 61 Fahrenheit and I work around that. But I suspect that "liberal with social democratic leanings allergic to ethnocentrism and dogmatic ideologies" translates to something like "left wingnut".
One that just turned off the radio in disgust because they were praising Hugo Chavez, who she has heard refer to Mao as the "Great Helmsman".
Celsius and Fahrenheit are equal at -40. I had to double check it but it turns out I remembered it right. From having been a heat treater for reasons no one would want to know I managed to memorize that one mm is approximately .04 inches. This is a fact of any use only to those who use a Brinnel glass as a low power microscope.
Today I am the cold-medicine-induced-stumbler teetering on either edge at any given moment.
Turkey would be difficult, with Thanksgiving approaching. Monkey in the middle (unless you are taller than the other players or have monkey-like long arms) stinks, because it takes forever to get out of the middle.
I'll quote a Susanne Vega song -- "If you want me, you can find me, left of center, wondering about you."
"turkey"... the latter won out because of the season, although the implications of the former might have been more apt, given the topic under discussion.
Lainie.. I think that means you're having a boy. Or a girl.
...a joke. Who could vote for any of those clowns?
But I would really prefer Al Gore. He is by far the most qualified person in the country to be president.
Well, in that case...
Bert is right -- those guys are almost all jokes. There's all this flutter and claptrap from the extreme right (I will never call those people "Christian") about finding a properly evangelical yada yada yada, and I think, the only truly decent man in that crowd is Mike Huckabee and the fact that none of those wingnuts will give him the time of day speaks volumes for them and even more about him. The others have done nothing but bash whichever Clinton is closest to hand in every one of their painfully long debates, which I'm sure gets them style points among the kind of swamp scum that's been turning that same tired trick for years but adds nothing to any public discourse. Not that I expected any of that crowd to contribute, anyway.
That's just here .
I am truly a liberal on social issues and conservative on immigration and border security.
Above all I hate the Iraq war , love our troops , and America as a whole .
Personally, my party is the local chamber of commerce.
Time Heals - 10 points for working in Beyonce.
then come ask me ok?
Mars, how do you expect them to do what "we" elect them for when "we" don't all agree? Or when "we" don't support them after they are elected? Or if we don't elect a majority who agree?
Not sure if this should be followed by a smiley face or a sad face.
I like to debate with both sides.
The left amuses me and the right scares me.
Too bad you are not in St. Louis
You would fit right in at the Lifelong Learning Institute
http://ucollege.wustl.edu/
programs/lifelong-learning