Christian, I'm not really a good Liberal, but I don't mind the label. I don't consider it perjorative. Some of my best friends are Liberals.
I could be a good Republican if they were not so inherently corrupt, ie. letting polluting industries regulate themselves, corporate welfare, no-bid contracts, etc... They are completely and utterly in the pocket of Big Business.
I admire their position on less govt. regulation in general, but certain things need to be regulated. Clean air and water belongs to the poor person in the ghetto just as much as Bill Gates. (Not that Gates is neccesarily a bad polluter). Govt. efficiency and not wasting tax $$s sounds good to me, but not to Bush and Co. I also agree that people should be self-sufficient as much as possible, but it is hypocritical for the GOP to promote this concept while encouraging job creators to leave the country.
At any rate, I'm not a pacifist, I can think of plenty of instances where military force gets my vote, I think that much of the left-wing's positions are inane.
The bottom line is that labels are funny when we are red-assing each other here and elsewhere, but they ultimately don't move the dialogue forward. The good news is that America is not a big apolitical blob anymore, do you remember having debates like this last time? So Bush did serve the National interest after all, by being so horribly incompetent and divisive he has made the average person more politically involved.
