Hehe...
Q: How Many Bush Administration Officials Does It Take To Screw In A Light Bulb?
A: None. There is nothing wrong with the light bulb; its conditions are improving every day. Any reports of its lack of incandescence are malicious spin from the liberal media. That light bulb has served honorably and anything you say undermines the lighting effect. Why do you hate freedom?
(via hammer & nail)
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How is this an independent website? Of the 8 posts on your front page 7 are anti-administration left-leaning posts? The onlt exception is a post knocking Kerry, and that is so easy to do nowadays. What makes this different than a pro-dem website?
Chappy, I think you're confusing Independent with Centrist.
Indies are all over the ideological spectrum. I've got a cyber Indie friend who is VERY conservative, but with a strong libertarian streak. She's a critical of Kerry as I am of Bush. But, we're both Indies and that's the basis of our friendship.
I know other Indies who are very Liberal. Most Indies as far as I can tell seem to be moderate, whether that be left of center or right of center.
I personally am an unremitting critic of George W. Bush. I make no apology for that. But, it doesn't logically follow that I therefore am pro-Dem. How many pro-Dems do you know who publically support President Clinton's Impeachment? I did and I'd do it again because it was the right thing to do. How many pro-Dems do you know that voted for Bob Dole in 1996? I did and I'd do it again wihtout reservation.
Our other bloggers, Donald and Scott, haven't posted much lately. Don has computer problems and Scott does taxes for a living and is busy with that. Both are Indies and both are less critical of the Bush administration than I am. C'est la vie. Their views on this administration are completely unrelated to their being Indies.
It might interest you to know that I used to be a conservative Republican. It's been many years, but I was a Dittohead before being a Dittohead had entered into the American lexicon. Limbaugh was just beginning to hit the big time when I stopped listen and formally ended my relationship with the Republican Party. In the years since then I have voted for Republicans about 70 - 80% of the time.
Before he started brown-nosing Bush, I was a hardcore McCainiac. In fact I first started theindependentvoter.com in early 2000 for the very purpose of publicizing my support for McCain in the 2000 GOP primary race.
Where's Donald nowadays?
Scott,
Donald emailed Carla and I a couple weeks ago and said that he's been having computer problems. I think he was using a borrowed computer to send the email.
I get the sense that his political cup might be half empty too. I.e., he has little to blog about. I could be wrong about that, of course. But, I know that when my posting slacks off over at PK and here, it's almost always because I just have nothing to say. C'est la vie. I think all bloggers go thru that at times. I know the ladies over at Value Judgement have commented on it in connection with their own lack of posting at times.
BTW, I see that both Center Field and Tom Carter's Notes have blogrolled Indie Castle. I'm pretty sure that Tom's a Democrat. Which is a shame 'cause I'd love to blogroll him here. Maybe we should created another blogroll listing for other blogs that aren't Indie? I know that you like Tom. And despite rarily agreeing with him, I like him too. His is one of the few that I check regularly.
That is interesting...you sound like you are more comfortable with a conservative philosophy than any other. And I completely understand your frustrations with a 2-party system that has its shortcomings. The problem is that demanding that people like McCain and Dean retain their unadulterated indepence would in effect relegate them to political obscurity and fringiness. Unfortunately, if you want to get anything accomplished politically you have got to work in with the 2-party system.
Also, you should create a separate blogroll for "non-indies"...or maybe 2 separate rolls one for those of more liberal persuasion and one for conservatives
Actually, I'm more comfortable with the philosophy of what used to be called "Rockefeller Republicans." They were socially responsible (ie. moderate) and fiscally conservative. There are very few left anymore. The GOP is no more, for all practical purposes. The charade we see today is in reality the NeoCon Party.
As for mavericks... It seems to me that Jesse Ventura proved that a Maverick can succeed despite the two-party system. Bernie Sanders has proven it too, getting re-elected to Congress numerous times as an Independent I expect that Jim Jeffords will get re-elected too if he runs again.
The two-party system doesn't have to define America. But, it takes courage and ethics to buck it. Abraham Lincoln famously stated that our federal government is "of the people, by the people and for the people." Sadly, that hasn't been the reality for many years. And the fault lies with the two major parties and their morally bankrupt schemes to gain the upperhand over the other party while America's soul rots.
Kevin, it's interesting that you say you're more comfortable with the philosophy of Rockefeller Republicans. If I absolutely had to, was forced to, identify myself in those terms, I'd claim to be more of a Scoop Jackson Democrat. Would be interesting to do a study of what the real differences are in those two general streams of political thought.
But just to prove what a blogwhore I'm becoming, if it gets me on your blogroll, then OK: I'm an Independent! No, really, I mean it. Honest.
Scoop Jackson, huh? He's credited by his son as the intellectual father of NeoConservatism.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2001834779_jackson12m.html
Although the son also points out that his father likely would have disagreed with the direction that his more prominent followers have taken his ideas.
I would think there are a few differences between Jacksonians and Rockefeller Republicans, with respect to the whole NeoCon thing. Depending of course on where Jacksonians self-identify with respect to today's NeoCons. My recollection is that RR's were quite supportive of Cold War defense initiatives. But, there certainly seems to have been a divergence between the two groups in the years in the years since the fall of Communism.
See... I can't tell if you're being facitious about being an Indie. Ideology is irrelevant to our current blogroll. The only thing that matters is whether one is an Indie or not. Or... in the case of Center Field, dominated by and/or primarily ran by one or more Indies.
Well, I have about the same number of people yelling at me because I'm a liberal as I have yelling at me because I'm a conservative. If you have an equal number of critics on the left and right, does that mean that you're just terribly confused or that maybe you're an independent? I think I deserve the benefit of the doubt, for bloroll purposes, anyway!
Well... yes and no. Different people define "independent" differently. I usually go with a stricter definition that means one who isn't a registered member of either major party at the very least, and one who isn't registered with any formal political party at the most. Preferably someone who is registered as either "Independent" or "Nonaffiliated" in the states where that's the closest option.
There certainly is some grey areas, though. Carla, for example... If you read her Bio over at PK and read her commentary, she self-identifies as a Democrat. Yet her formal voter registration is and has long been "Nonaffiliated."
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