[spillover]

Originally Posted by ER

Well, you can look to their voting record on all of the issues and you can rank how Liberal or Conservative they are compared to their fellow Congressman. Each party has an affiliate that gives politicians a rating on how Conservative or Liberal they are. According to those ratings (based on voting records), Kerry was one of the most Liberal (extreme to the Left) politicians in the Senate.

I stand enlightened.

I'm always a little stumped by accusations of extremism. FDR was lionized for leading the country out of The Depression, but he was about as Socialist as you can get.

The geographic thing is intriguing to me. A buddy of mine had a buddy (two degrees of separation) from Georgia. When I met him, we were talking about what it is like growing up in the heart of Dixie, and he said that there was a common sentiment that things hadn't been the same since the war, the Civil War. This was 130 years later...

Originally Posted by ccwilli3

more left than kennedy, he was... -Yoda

[bwhip]

A couple of great points in an editorial in today's WSJ:

...On Tuesday, a majority of the American electorate took a look at their party and asked, "Who are these people?" Who are George Soros, Michael Moore, Tim Robbins, Susan Sontag, Teresa Heinz Kerry and all these other self-anointed spokespersons for everything good and true? And what does a party that is dominated by a loose coalition of the coastal intelligentsia, billionaires with too much spare time, the trial lawyers' association, the Hollywood Actors' Guild, rock stars and unionized labor have in common with what's quaintly known as Middle America? The majority's answers were (a) not us; and (b) not a whole lot.

...This is a Democratic Party in which nostalgia for tradition is too often considered racism, opposition to gay marriage is bigotry, misgiving about abortion is misogyny, Christian fundamentalism is like Islamic fundamentalism, discussion about gender roles is sexism, and confidence in America's global purpose is cultural imperialism. To put it mildly, this is not the values system to which most Americans adhere.

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Reminds me of that little jingle "Hooray for Hollywood!"