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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm with you.  I lean more Republican than Democrat but issue by issue I'm split.

Abortion and Gay marriage, I'm a republican
Gun control, environment and general energy issues, I'm a democrat

The big budget, defense and entitlement spending issues I'm generally more republican but even then believe that there's lots of room for compromise.[/quote]

You are a total conservative, if all you can claim is gun control and energy.  If you want to keep spending gobs on defense and cut social welfare programs, you are in no way a Democrat.[/quote]

Never ever said I was a Democrat.  Said I am a centrist who does lean to the right, but who hates the polarization of both parties and wishes there were a middle-ground party.  I said there's lots of room for compromise on both defense and entitlement spending.  Crazy multi-billion dollar programs for military hardware that DoD doesn't want are ridiculous.  Low low Tricare premiums for military families should be sliding scale more in line with private sector.  Military pensions shouldn't be double-dipped.  I'm a contractor and see folks retire from the military and go work in the civil service and some then retire from the civil service and become contractors, all the while receiving 1 or 2 government pensions.  No, needs to stop as it's killing the defense budget.  All of these are things that are rabidly protected by the far right in the Republican party.

On the other side of things, to take SS and Medicare off the table of any budget conversations and instead say we just need more revenue is ridculous.  Oil, agriculture, aviation subsidies need to go.  Tax structure desperately needs reformed, however I don't believe that the answer to our budget woes is simply to take more and more from the wealthy without seeking to reasonably cut or more appropriately manage these behemoths.

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