Is Cheney an extremist?

[The Duke]

one of only 10 to vote against Head Start
one of only 4 to vote against banning metal detector proof weapons
voted against the Department of Education
voted against Meals on Wheels
voted against calling for the release of Nelson Mandela
voted against the MLK holiday

Kerry's not the biggest extremist on either ticket people.

This is classic liberal-think.

He votes against a resolution that demands the release of mandela by someone else.  Not a resolution that would have released Mandela, but one that demands something the congress had no actual power to affect and had only one tangible outcome--to irrtate a staunchly anti-Soviet ally.

If the resolution did something other than bitch about things, I'd see a reason to support it.

And voting against (another) federal holiday?  So that lazy bureacrats can sit around their house wathcing "Passions" all day?  How many federal employees do you suppose actually thought about MLK Jr on their holiday?  I you guessed 1, you guessed to many!

[The Duke]

AuH20,

I think you've created a false standard.  BRTD has never said that there is inherent virtue in the extremes, but rather inherent virtue in leftism.  Therefore, extreme leftism is the greatest, most virtuous ideology, while its opposite, extreme rightism, is the worst ideology.

[The Duke]

He started the poll to drive a wedge between moderates and conservatives over things like head start, not to prove that extremism is bad.