Political continum

[Citizen James]

One of the problems which causes confusion for people is that different folks have a different perception of what constitutes a moderate, a mainstream liberal/conservative, or even at the far end of the scales.

So what I want to ask is how people would fill in 5 (or 7) fields as to their political continum.  I ask that curent presidential and vice presidential candidates be left off the list or else many of the partisans will be calling their guy a moderate and the other guy an extremist.

The main list:
Far Left -
Mainstream liberal -
Moderate/centrist -
Mainstream conservative -
Far right -

I add two other categories for people who fall outside of typical clasification, or 'oddballs'.

Most interesting 'oddball' -
Most annoying 'oddball' -

My list:
Far left - Barbara Boxer
Mainstream liberal - Dianne Feinstein
Moderate/Centrist - Bill Clinton
Mainstream conservative -  John McCain
Far Right - Rick Sanatorium

Most interesting 'oddball' - Ariana Huffington
Most annoying 'oddball' - Ralph Nader

(I would have also put GHWB under moderate/centrist, but I wanted to keep it to one person per line)

[badnarikin04]

What do you mean by this? Name your favorite for each category?

[Citizen James]

What do you mean by this? Name your favorite for each category?

Basicly.  Or who you would consider most represntative of each catagory.

[Ats]

The one-dimensional comparison has been outdated for two centuries... I think that it should be more of a four-dimensional combination: Economic, Social, Political, and Foreign Policy issues.

[TeePee4Prez]

On the Forum:

Far left- migrendel, TexasGurl, BRTD, HockeyDude, Sheilak5, NickG, nclib
Mainstream liberal- IrishDemocrat (myself), Nym90, Lawrence Watson, Defarge, Harry, Akno21, raggage, ilikeverin
Centrist- Boss Tweed, bullmoose88, John Ford, Gustaf, hughento, Andrew, Nation
Mainstream conservative- supersoulty, htmldon, opebo
Far right- Brambila, Phillip, KeystonePhil, dubya2004, Ronald Reagan,  StatesRights, jmfcst, agcat

Sure I can do more

[Keystone Phil]

Once again, how am I far right? I find myself always asking this question and I never get an answer (or sometimes I'll get an answer like "being against abortion except in the extreme cases of rape or the life of the mother is extreme right")

[Horus]

I think I'm somewhere in between Far left and mainstream left.

[zachman]

Far left- Michael Moore
Mainstream liberal- Ted Kennedy
Centrist- Jim Jeffords
Mainstream Conservative- Ben Nighthorse Campbell
Far Right- Tom DeLay

[Keystone Phil]

Far left- Michael Moore
Mainstream liberal- Ted Kennedy
Centrist- Jim Jeffords
Mainstream Conservative- Ben Nighthorse Campbell
Far Right- Tom DeLay

Campbell is not a mainstream conservative and Ted Kennedy is further to the left of the mainstream liberal title.

[Keystone Phil]

Far Left - Bernard Sanders
Mainstream Liberal - Diane Feinstein
Centrist - Gordon Smith
Mainstream Conservative - Bill Frist
Far Right - Pat Robertson


(And may I add that IrishDem's comments on how Opedo and htmldon are "mainstream conservatives" were pretty funny )

[TeePee4Prez]

For the 50 millionth time.. YOU HAVE RICK SANTORUM ON YOUR SIGNATURE!!!!  He is a far right facist!!!  I knwo supersoulty  will vote for him, but he is not a huge advocate of him.  

[Keystone Phil]

For the 50 millionth time.. YOU HAVE RICK SANTORUM ON YOUR SIGNATURE!!!!  He is a far right facist!!!  I knwo supersoulty  will vote for him, but he is not a huge advocate of him.  

And for the 50 millionth time, name a view that I hold that is far right. I love it when you can't answer these simple questions.

[The Duke]

Real Life

Far Left-Ted Kennedy
Mainstream Liberal-Dick Gephardt
Moderate/Centrist-Joe Lieberman
Mainstream Conservative-Bob Dole
Far Right-Phil Gramm
Interesting Oddball-Christopher Hitchens
Annoying Oddball-Patrick Buchanan

Forum Only

Far Left-migrendel
Mainstream Liberal-Nym90
Moderate/Centrist-Ben
Mainstream Conservative-Keystone Phil
Far Right-StatesRights
Interesting Oddball-MortFromNewYawk
Annoying Oddball-I'm not naming names

[opebo]

(And may I add that IrishDem's comments on how Opedo and htmldon are "mainstream conservatives" were pretty funny )

If only it were so!