What is your political party?

United States
June 26, 2009 7:05pm CST
I am very interested in politics and I am interested to see what other people on mylot think about politics. Are you a democrat or a republican? Liberal or conservitive?
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• United States
27 Jun 09
I am a fiscal conservative, and a social liberal. I that would probably make me a Democrat.
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@Taskr36 (13963)
• United States
28 Jun 09
If you're a fiscal conservative how can you support the democrats and their current spending spree, especially the stimulus?
• United States
28 Jun 09
Actually, that probably makes you a libertarian...just guessing. That's what I am. Basically it means "leave me (and my money) alone" as long as I'm not hurting anyone else...
@xfahctor (14118)
• Lancaster, New Hampshire
27 Jun 09
I am what I guess you could call an independant. I do have a constitution party membership and supported their candidate for president this year, but I voted libertarian for my state governor. the thing about liberal/conservative is, that it is more an identification of ones moral and social beliefs rather than political offiliation. I tend to look at political affiliation more in terms of libertarian/totalitarian. I Identify my self as a moderate libertarian and federalist in my political beliefs. So while this country is chasing its tail with its populace arguing amongst itself over the whole liberal/conservative debate, people don't see the big totalitarian hammer comming down on us from BOTH major parties..the republican and democratic parties so many people are strangly still idebntifying themselves with and voting for despite the blatent near identical larger agenda they both work towards.
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• United States
28 Jun 09
I think it's funny that to get votes, democrats have to lean to the conservative end of their party, and republicans to the liberal. What we end up with in either candidate is a watered down version of their own party's ideologies who are so close to each other, save for a few differences, that if you saw their "beliefs" on a piece of paper, it'd be hard to tell them apart. Then their supporters rise in is such opposition to their competition, without being able to recognize how similar they are!
@heathcliff (1415)
• United States
27 Jun 09
I started my own party. The tentative name is the Good Party, because I was looking for a title that would be hard to turn into a negative. I was a Republican until Reagan's second year and a Democrat until Clinton. Technically I'm an Independent with a conservative liberalism. After those two words are ever shown to have any meaning again in American politics, I'll be happy to explain that to you. Right now, you see, anyone who thinks they know what those words mean is just projecting a meaning based on years of bias. Ultimately I know I'll go down in history as a Pedocratic Unification Elitist, and that's okay because someday most of the world will be as well.
@spalladino (17891)
• United States
27 Jun 09
I'm a Republican who is currently pretty disenchanted with my party right now. I have views that are conservative, moderate and liberal.
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@bestboy19 (5478)
• United States
27 Jun 09
I am a conservative republican.
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@britt_200 (1226)
• United States
27 Jun 09
democrat for me...
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@clrumfelt (5490)
• United States
28 Jun 09
I'm a Reagan-era Conservative.
@Taskr36 (13963)
• United States
28 Jun 09
For now I still identify myself with the Republican party but I'm leaning towards libertarian.
• United States
28 Jun 09
I am a libertarian. There are many facets to the platform (like any political party) and I don't agree with all of them, but I do agree with more of them that any other political party. Libertarians are conservative in that they don't think there is much role for government, aside from what is specifically set out in the constitution. Fiscally, they are very conservative. Socially, however, they are extremely liberal. A simple way of saying it is "as long as I'm not hurting anyone, you can't tell me what to do...or how to spend my money" There is a lot of controversy with the libertarian party, and I'd be interested to see if anyone responds to this with their own interpretation of the party. I would love to see more libertarians in office, I believe we are the strongest third party. By the way, contrary to popular belief, the U.S. is not a two-party system...I wish more people would look into other parties because until they do, people will feel the need to choose between only two candidates when neither one really represents their ideology. I think it is sad that people think voting for a third party is "wasting" your vote. I'm pretty certain that voting for someone or something you don't really believe in is cheating our political system, and the basis of a democracy.
@xfahctor (14118)
• Lancaster, New Hampshire
28 Jun 09
To my way of thinking, the only wasted vote is either one not cast at all or a vote for the "lesser of the two evils". To vote for the "lesser of 2 evils" is a moral compromise and a dereliction of civic responsability.