05-05-2008, 05:07 PM
[quote karsen]
A Moderate doesn't have to have some third way of handling an issue. Rather it's all of the issues as a whole that are considered. A Moderate could feel, in the example you gave, that it's perfectly fine to have a gun magazine that holds over 10 rounds – yet that same person may feel it's also perfectly okay for a woman to have the right to choose in abortion.
Who says that's a "moderate" position? That's why I said that the word "moderate" is a political weasel word. My position is moderate, but now that other fellows position...
A Moderate doesn't have to have some third way of handling an issue. Rather it's all of the issues as a whole that are considered. A Moderate could feel, in the example you gave, that it's perfectly fine to have a gun magazine that holds over 10 rounds – yet that same person may feel it's also perfectly okay for a woman to have the right to choose in abortion.
Who says that's a "moderate" position? That's why I said that the word "moderate" is a political weasel word. My position is moderate, but now that other fellows position...