The Smartest Posters on Atlas (in my humble opinion)

[GeorgiaModerate]

NYCMM, you seem like a decent guy, but a little humility would go a long ways.

I'm calling my man Nuke a 'great mind.'

Oh, come on.  You said "great minds recognize other great minds".  The implication there is clear.

RI is right.  If you were a little less arrogant, people would take what you write a lot more seriously.

[GeorgiaModerate]

NYCMM, you seem like a decent guy, but a little humility would go a long ways.

I'm calling my man Nuke a 'great mind.'

Oh, come on.  You said "great minds recognize other great minds".  The implication there is clear.

RI is right.  If you were a little less arrogant, people would take what you write a lot more seriously.

Atlas, yourself included, already takes me more cerialously than I expected.

By the way for every 'Rockefeller Republican' like you who converted Dem because of le orange man, there are at least two Dems who #WalkedAway because of the legitimately dangerous American left.

I'm no friend of extremes on either the left or the right.  But after what the right has become, I'll take my chances with the left.  The choice is not always between good and bad; sometimes it's between bad and worse, and this is often a more significant choice.

[GeorgiaModerate]

NYCMM, you seem like a decent guy, but a little humility would go a long ways.

I'm calling my man Nuke a 'great mind.'

Oh, come on.  You said "great minds recognize other great minds".  The implication there is clear.

RI is right.  If you were a little less arrogant, people would take what you write a lot more seriously.

Atlas, yourself included, already takes me more cerialously than I expected.

By the way for every 'Rockefeller Republican' like you who converted Dem because of le orange man, there are at least two Dems who #WalkedAway because of the legitimately dangerous American left.

I'm no friend of extremes on either the left or the right.  But after what the right has become, I'll take my chances with the left.  The choice is not always between good and bad; sometimes it's between bad and worse, and this is often a more significant choice.

The GOP is much more moderate now than it was when you were a "Republican."

I was a registered Republican for quite a few years.  I voted for Gerald Ford in 1976.  I supported Howard Baker in 1980 until he dropped out, then switched to John Anderson.  Show me a prominent Republican today who's as moderate as any of those three.

[GeorgiaModerate]

NYCMM, you seem like a decent guy, but a little humility would go a long ways.

I'm calling my man Nuke a 'great mind.'

Oh, come on.  You said "great minds recognize other great minds".  The implication there is clear.

RI is right.  If you were a little less arrogant, people would take what you write a lot more seriously.

Atlas, yourself included, already takes me more cerialously than I expected.

By the way for every 'Rockefeller Republican' like you who converted Dem because of le orange man, there are at least two Dems who #WalkedAway because of the legitimately dangerous American left.

I'm no friend of extremes on either the left or the right.  But after what the right has become, I'll take my chances with the left.  The choice is not always between good and bad; sometimes it's between bad and worse, and this is often a more significant choice.

The GOP is much more moderate now than it was when you were a "Republican."

I was a registered Republican for quite a few years.  I voted for Gerald Ford in 1976.  I supported Howard Baker in 1980 until he dropped out, then switched to John Anderson.  Show me a prominent Republican today who's as moderate as any of those three.

Not trying to argue here, but isn't Anderson a liberal and not a moderate? Which means that technically if somebody finds a moderate republican these days, they would be more moderate than Anderson, since he was on the left. However, even I know you are right about Ford

Actually, in his early career Anderson was considered one of the more conservative members of the House, but moved leftward on social issues over time.  He remained conservative on fiscal issues, though.  By the standards of today's Republicans he'd probably be considered a liberal, but I doubt that anyone in that era would have called him one.  I'd agree that he was more to the left, at least on social issues, than either Ford or Baker.

[GeorgiaModerate]

I was a registered Republican for quite a few years.  I voted for Gerald Ford in 1976.  I supported Howard Baker in 1980 until he dropped out, then switched to John Anderson.  Show me a prominent Republican today who's as moderate as any of those three.

Man are you really that old? Sheesh, I thought I was talking to yet another 20-something*.

*though to be fair, there seems to be more literal teenagers on Atlas these days than 20 somethings

Yes, I first got interested in politics in the 1968 election.  I grew up in a staunchly Republican family and got drawn in by arguments between my parents on whether to support Nixon or Romney -- that's George Romney, Mitt Romney's father.  (If you like alternate histories, I wrote one about Romney winning the nomination that year.)  I also remember the '64 campaign, but wasn't really old enough to be following things yet.

[GeorgiaModerate]

I was a registered Republican for quite a few years.  I voted for Gerald Ford in 1976.  I supported Howard Baker in 1980 until he dropped out, then switched to John Anderson.  Show me a prominent Republican today who's as moderate as any of those three.

Man are you really that old? Sheesh, I thought I was talking to yet another 20-something*.

*though to be fair, there seems to be more literal teenagers on Atlas these days than 20 somethings

Brah you're twenty four.

As for Georgia Moderate, I remember vaguely -could be off though- a thread saying his first time voting was sixty eight, which means he was between twenty one to twenty four in that election, so if you do the math, seventy two to seventy five. Making him quite possibly the oldest person in Atlas

Not quite; I'm in my mid-sixties, and I believe there are at least a few people here older than that.  '68 was the first election I followed (see previous response).  I just missed being able to vote in '72.   So the vote for Ford in '76 was my first Presidential vote.

[GeorgiaModerate]

I was a registered Republican for quite a few years.  I voted for Gerald Ford in 1976.  I supported Howard Baker in 1980 until he dropped out, then switched to John Anderson.  Show me a prominent Republican today who's as moderate as any of those three.

Man are you really that old? Sheesh, I thought I was talking to yet another 20-something*.

*though to be fair, there seems to be more literal teenagers on Atlas these days than 20 somethings

Brah you're twenty four.

As for Georgia Moderate, I remember vaguely -could be off though- a thread saying his first time voting was sixty eight, which means he was between twenty one to twenty four in that election, so if you do the math, seventy two to seventy five. Making him quite possibly the oldest person in Atlas

Not quite; I'm in my mid-sixties, and I believe there are at least a few people here older than that.  '68 was the first election I followed (see previous response).  I just missed being able to vote in '72.   So the vote for Ford in '76 was my first Presidential vote.

Did you vote for Reagan in 84

No, I had a brief fling with the Libertarian Party in the 80's, and voted for the LP candidate in both '84 and '88 (the Presidential contests were foregone conclusions anyways).  Voted for a mix downballot.