Austin Centrist

a couple of more

Arlen Spector

Kinky Friedman (running for Tx governor)

whoa, whoa...

did you just say that John "Hey, Pat Robertson, I'm your buddy" McCain is a centrist?

Or Joe "The War's Fine in Iraq....if you ignore all the death" Lieberman?

Or Heather "Rubber Stamp" Wilson?

Seriously? I hope this was just a bit of snark that I totally missed.

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Mitt Romney is in no way a centrist. He has supported a religious conservative agenda during his time as Massachussettes governor.

we're at a point where simply supporting centrist candidates is not enough- both republicans and democrats are pushed to the extremes to win elections. this idea- www.unity08.com- looks really exciting and promising. it could push the country back on track and talking about issues that matter most.

I just quit Gandelman's TMV glug, because it is NOT a blog.

That blog is anything but moderate, it is in fact a left wing fairy dream world.

Most of the contributors there are so far to the extremes they're barely hannging on by their fingernails, and most left and right have the worst cases of party line tunnelvisions on the web.

Joe Gandelman libelously accused me in a single email of complaining to him about other bloggers "going over "the" line?" when it was actually someone, a real coward, emailing him using my screen name, which is the same one I use in every blog I contribute to. Whatever I wrote is either still in the current comments area or the archives.

All anyone, including Gandelman had to do is read what I wrote right there in the blog, DEFENDING the rights to say what they want to say, people I totally disagreed with. I believe in the first Amendment. And the only excuse to edit, censor, or delete anyone's posts and replies is if they are making libelous statements.

I'm a big boy, and I invite debate if someone disagrees with me. Who knows...someone could actually convince me to change my opinion.

Cuss me if you want and I may or may not cuss you back. Slur my screen name if you wish, call me "chipped lip" like a fellow calling himself MichaelF did, and I' send you the same invitation I sent that person in the public forum, my full name, address, phone number and an invitation to come visit me if he truly wanted to get up front and personal.

I know politics can get nasty, but nobody has to stoop to pig eye level and wallow in mud, and I don't and usually won't and will if I can ignore such or do like I did with Gandelman's TMV blog...leave...as I promised I would do when they started having ultra liberal onesided deletions of opinion.

I gave Mr. Gandelman a stern warning as to what I would do if he replied back with further libelous slander...which was I would have my attorney track him down through his publisher and sue his tail off.

I do my best to stick to the facts and present them as a whole picture painted with the broadest possible brush and I don't go out looking for argument, but believe me, when forced I can hold up my end and then some.

Sometimes we all write things down that hurt others either intentionally or inadvertantly.

I guess my biggest pet peeve is when people that never served a day in military service, have no conception of what being in combat is like, condemn honored military personnel, some of them giving most of their adult lives in service to our country.

In 1967 when I was home on leave, I myself was called "baby killer" by a now very well known political figure, a college student back then, that had just bought an ounce of marijuana from a man I knew from highschool.

I rewarded that person with a pop in his left eye knocking him down.

Perhaps what I did was over reaction to the comment..but it sure felt good when I did it!