I have taken online "political tests" which use 2 axes (as in, plural of axis)--liberal to conservative and
libertarian to authoritarian, IIRC, and found that I was smack dab near the middle. Here in Mass. I refuse
to belong to either party, being Unenrolled aka Independent. If I walked into a room of Democrats and said
"I'm for lower taxes and fiscal responsibility, the death penalty, fighting the war on terror, securing our
borders, etc.", they'd say, get out of here, you far right wing wacko! Then I'd walk into a room of
Republicans and say, "Hi, I support gay marriage and a woman's right to choose, they'd say, get out of here,
you leftist commie pinko!
In the old days I might have been called a conservative Democrat, but that wing of the party seems to have flown the coop. Yet the failure of recent Presidential candidates to win "the solid South" and many of
the so-called "flyover states" (Zell Miller warned you!) shows that the Dems ignore the right side of their
party at their own peril.
And we live in a state (MA) which admittedly has a Republican gov and Lt gov but many other office
holders are Democrat, including all 10 Reps, both Senators, etc. If you see a roll call vote in the paper,
the Legislature looks like this: D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, R. D, D, R, D, D, D, R, etc.
And I laughed out loud when a Democrat said "it's time to take back this state". Other than the governorship,
the Dems already OWN it!
