Angnoch wrote:Legendary Apophis wrote:[KMA]Avenger wrote:Legendary Apophis wrote:Liberal nonsense always pushes itself in.
You've lost me Jim, what does this have to do with which political ideology one supports?
It's not a matter of Democrat or Republican, because you likely have Democrats who are opposed to it (conservative democrats who would be conservative for society values but totally agreeing with democrats' economic policy/welfare/domestic policy), while you have Republicans who are in favor, even though the latter usually become Libertarians because Libertarians (liberal for both economy and society) are in favor of legalization.
Politics aren't limited to one line, it's determined by two things, think about the political compass: stance on the domestic policy and society on the one hand, stance on economy/taxes on the other. Libertarians are liberal in both. Conservative democrats aren't liberal in any. Republicans are usually liberal-conservative, conservative for domestic/society (well they are usually conservative for society values like same-sex marriage, adoption for same sex and legalizing drugs and more towards a small state than a big state) and liberal for economy. Finally you have democratic liberals, who are liberal for society but not necessarily domestic policy (depends on particular points) and not really liberal to not at all for economy.
Economically I am in the middle between Obama and Romney, for foreign and environment I am closer to Obama while for society values, a part of domestic values, security and immigration I am very close to Mitt Romney. That tells you it's maybe more complicated than the explanation I gave above, but closer to this than a simple split democrat/republican.
I am completely sorry but I need to point out that you are wrong Jim, a TRUE Republican is a person who believes in a small centralized government that his little to no say in a persons daily life. The republican party as it stands now is a completely corrupted and pathetic excuse for what it was supposed to stand for. Politics as I see it has no place determining what is socially acceptable, and anyone who tells you otherwise has an agenda of their own.
Then I am clearly siding with the "false" republicans mainstream establishment because except economics and social which I am more center than right, I stand with Romney and McCain on many societal/security/domestic/immigration policies. I am conservative after all (defend traditional family -not saying I am against relationships before marriage though-, tough against drugs, rather strict on immigration, against liberal political correctness...). Probably due to me being french right wing person leading me to agree much more with Romney than with libertarians.
I would have very little to agree with your idea of "TRUE" republican, if anything at all...(80-85% agreeing with Romney on ISideWith, 30% with Gary Johnson libertarian candidate)