Reply #20: Dean is moderately liberal - right in step with the majority of the US [View All]

[Rockerdem]

I was to hurl everytime that I hear some MSM whore regurgitate the unfounded "truism" that the country is moderately conservative. BS. If so, why is Bush feel the need to add social programs like the pill benefit, no matter how lame?

If Bush felt that the country was conservative or evangelical, he would have answered the "gay" question in the debate much differently than he did. When asked whether they were born that way, he would have said "no" and mentioned the Bible. Instead, he felt compelled to give an answer more in step with the current body of science; namely, "I don't know." He chose reason over religion, not that he believed it, but because he felt that was what the country wanted to hear. And where it was at -- moderately liberal.

I know where the country was in the 50s (segregation, pollution, women's rights, Medicare) and I know where it is now. All that progress didn't happen because people are more conservative than liberal. They're not perfect by a long shot, but they are better than what commentators make them out to be