An idea?

[M]

Call me Reuben (my middle name), and I have a single, uniform ideology: I'm a liberal. Let me explain:

Social issues: Here I am often a liberal as dems use the word. I support gun control, am pro-choice, pro-gay rights (am still not sure about marriage, would support civil unions), do not like conservative commentators like O'Reilly saying Christianity is inherent to what America is. The issue I most disagree with dems is this category is Affirmative Action, which I oppose on liberal grounds- sacrifices the equal rights of individuals to the equal rights of arbitrary racial groupings. I always oppose race in politics.

Economic Issues: I'm a traditional liberal capitalist. As John Locke, the original liberal, said, the government is best that governs least. Nowhere is this more true than in economics. Economic theories of socialism are just a carryover of the ancien regime idea of Father State.

Foreign Policy: My single most important and most liberal issue. I am a radical Wilsonian. All mankind is created equal, and no Citizen of Freedom can rest until all humanity is free. Anyone who supports a Hitler, Stalin, Hussein, Arafat, etc., is an enemy of democracy, a racist, and a traitor to all mankind.

[M]

Most GOPers are liberal in at least some of the ways I describe. As for the status quo dinosaurs who support tyranny and terrorism, they might as well get out of the party, we have no use for 'em. (Trade you Chafee for Zell!)

Wilson's fourteen points were meant to establish a worldwide system of democracy with malice toward none. Wouln't ya know it? The French stabbed us all in the back.

(Wilson made some big mistakes, but he was right in pinciple. My favorite thinker in the world today is Clinton's first CIA director, Jim Woolsey. Check out his ideas at http://www.freedomhouse.org , or http://www.defenddemocracy.com

[M]

Not the social stuff, where I know I'm closer to the left, but most GOP are liberal in the economic and foreign policy sense I describe.

I am using the actual definition of liberal (Locke-Montesqieu-Burke-Pitt-Jefferson), not the cockamamy socialist-defense of tyrants junk.

[M]

Arafat would be a Hitler if he was that powerful. As it is, he has spent his entire life killing, killing, killing, as much as and wherever possible.

MiamiU, you clearly have noit ever met victims of homicide bombers, and thise who have lost loved ones from these attacks. I have. Arafat is the Haman of our days, and will not stop until he wipes out the Jewish peope from the face of the Earth. I fully realize that many Dems, notably Teds Turner and Kennedy, are supportive of these plans. But, thank G-d, we have a fantastic president who will not allow the Chosen People to be thrown into the sea.

Every time I hear people support Arafat, I have to go watch the opening credits of Exodus, the music and the flame together basically sum up our history w/o words, and I know G-d will not allow our annihilation. After all, he let us live this long against all the odds. And in the end, Arafat will pass like Hitler, Stalin, and Hussein, alll of who he is fully as bad as.

I have always wondered why dems forgave Arafat for having Bobby Kennedy killed for being friendly to Israel. Not only that, but now are closer to Sirhan Sirhan than Kennedy on MidEast "peace". Ah, well. They're hopeless. Just look at Dean. Bush will break 50% of the Jewish vote- mark my words. I know very liberal Jewish people who plan to vote for Bush, because Dean would be our doom. He would sit and watch the cattlecars bearing us to our final destinations in silence.