Who's the most right-wing poster on this message board?

[Gabu]

Someone should make a scale that includes names of all the regular posters and put them on a right-to-left scale...or perhaps the more complicated diamond scale that includes libertarian and populist quadrants.

You could just make two scales, one for economic scores and one for social scores.

[Gabu]

I am a moderate.

Me too.

Yeah, you're so moderate that you're not.

[Gabu]

Because abolishing all regulations regarding marriage, drugs, prostitution, and porn are sooo right-wing.  Right.

Right-wing?  I just said you weren't moderate.

Anarcho-capitalism is not moderate by the conventional definition of the wold, whatever you'd like to argue.

[Gabu]

Sorry, you just seem pretty far-right to me. I didn't mean that as an insult, either, I like you more than most Republicans on the forum.

Well thank you and I'm not insulted. It's just that liberals like to call me a far right winger yet can never point out what's so far right about my positions. I'm actually amused by it.

You're right-wing because you like Santorum, duh.  Everyone knows that liking Santorum means that you're a Nazi.

[Gabu]

Sorry, you just seem pretty far-right to me. I didn't mean that as an insult, either, I like you more than most Republicans on the forum.

Well thank you and I'm not insulted. It's just that liberals like to call me a far right winger yet can never point out what's so far right about my positions. I'm actually amused by it.

Everyone knows that liking Santorum means that you're a Nazi.

Oh yeah I know. Believe it or not, that is the reasoning I get from many people when they cannot point out a single far right position I hold.

Don't worry, most of us know that you're not far right and are actually a liberal.

[Gabu]

OK, Phil, name some far left positions I hold then.

Wage caps. Stacking the courts. Dismantling the United States military. Taxing the hell out of cigarettes.

Uh, I don't think that stacking the courts is a liberal position.

Because abolishing all regulations regarding marriage, drugs, prostitution, and porn are sooo right-wing.  Right.

Right-wing?  I just said you weren't moderate.

Anarcho-capitalism is not moderate by the conventional definition of the wold, whatever you'd like to argue.

but anarcho-capitalism isn't exactly a right ideology either.

He said he was a moderate.  I said he was not.

I haven't said anything about which quadrant of the political compass he's on.

[Gabu]

Stacking the courts is a very liberal position. The communists can't be troubled with little things like the Constitution, so they appoint judges to come up with a "broad interpretation" so contrary to what the framers intended that even they can live with it.

I'm sure that there isn't a conservative in existence who would ever want to stack the courts.

[Gabu]

Stacking the courts is a very liberal position. The communists can't be troubled with little things like the Constitution, so they appoint judges to come up with a "broad interpretation" so contrary to what the framers intended that even they can live with it.

If Bush were to propose it, it would not be liberal.  It was only liberal with FDR because he likely would have appointed liberal judges.  Overall, it's a manuever designed (at the time) to afford the executive more control over the judiciary and thus the laws of the state, which would be seen as quite conservative, as in the same vein of a monarchy.

What president, over the last century, made a serious effort to force his ideology on the court, exclusive of appointment?  FDR.

A liberal doing an action does not make that action liberal.

[Gabu]

Anarcho-capitalism is not moderate by the conventional definition of the wold, whatever you'd like to argue.

I'm not an anarcho capitalist.

I could have sworn you said you were.

Never mind, then.

[Gabu]

What president, over the last century, made a serious effort to force his ideology on the court, exclusive of appointment?  FDR.

Only an example, JJ - stacking the court is not a "liberal" thing to do just because FDR happens to be a Democrat, and I have a feeling that's where Philip is getting his logic.  Anything that is designed to put more power in the hands of the state is inherently a conservative and atavistic manuever.  You have to remove Republican, Democrat, and our politicized ideals of liberal and conservative from any such discussion.

No, I am suggesting that the greatest effort to politicize the Court and to alter its composition in the last 105 years was done to advance an exceptionally liberal agenda.  The tactic is not, in itself liberal but it has been more greatly used by the liberals during this period.

That still does not make it a liberal thing to do.

[Gabu]

So I'm moderate, yes?

Actually, I was just holding off before I could confirm my suspicions of some things that you had said.  You know, stuff like

There should be no income tax and no sales tax.

and

I do not believe any form of taxation to be legal.

and

[Social Security] has become a welfare, and 99% of welfare are for lazy parasitic people.

Oh, and let's not forget

OK here is my idea.  Put executions on pay-per-view and charge say, $50 + service provider fee.  The $50 goes to the government to finance the execution and the trail of the criminal in question.  What is wrong with it?

Shall I continue?

[Gabu]

How was Lincoln an anarchist?

He wasn't.  He is quite far from the endpoint of the right.

I suppose I'm righter than you, since I am an anarcho-capitalist.

Richius supports the total abolishment of taxes and (hopefully) a lot of other things, given how much smaller an amount of money the government will have following that action.

[Gabu]

I support the abolition of government.

Okay, you are further right than him, then.

Kinda makes me wonder why you ran for governmental office, though.

[Gabu]

I support the abolition of government.

Okay, you are further right than him, then.

Kinda makes me wonder why you ran for governmental office, though.

I'm pragmatical and an incrementalist. I believe in change from the inside.

All righty, we'll start the abolition with your Senate seat.