Howard-festo: What Would Barry Say?

Liberal media? Riiiiight. I am putting this post here so that I can send people to it as a reply when they throw out that knee-jerk "liberal" label, instead of talking about the actual merits of an issue.

Nobody is "liberal" or "conservative" on every  issue (few of us, anyway). We're all mixed bags. Me, I support the death penalty, the Second Amendment, gay marriage & Roe v. Wade. I also thought Clinton lied under oath and deserved to be impeached. Go figure.

I was in a cranky mood about people who use labels instead of their brains the day I wrote this.

Comments

[Larry Reidt]

Nicely done. I copied the passage from Job. I may make a little framed poster of it for my office.

LR

[Reggie Hall]

No two people can agree all the Time I believe as you say, no one is liberal or conservative on every issue. As a pragmatic person, I'm not thinking liberal or conservative when solving my problems. Most of the time I vote for democrats over republicans but not because I want liberal policy. Most of the time I read the St. Pete Times verses the Tampa Tribune but not because the Times is more liberal. I love reading Howard Troxler but I don't always agree with Howard.

Should a president who lied about sex under oath be impeached? Should the same congress hold impeachment hearings for a president who lied us into war? That's a mixed bag.

[Jean Kilchenstein]

I agree that most of us are neither liberals or conservatives, but somewhere in the middle. BUT, I do think it is wrong to persecute a person due to a mistake of nature. If you want to call it God, that is your choice, but the natural world has provided us with many interesting points of diversity in our history.
To belittle a person who has provided good service to a community for fourteen years just because of a change in gender is just antiquated thinking, & plain wrong. This is the opinion of a born female who has been totally hetrosexual all of her 63 years of life.

[Joseph T. Hobson,ESQ]

Hell, I've enjoyed Howard Troxler for years, I tell you, and I am only thankful he has not been subsumed by some larger news syndicate. And another hing, I LIKE the idea that everyone signe theri name on to this jobber, no drive by sophmoric attacks. The Buzz blog has just gotten ridiculous.
This is why Howard, a horn-rimmed Chapel Hill New South moderate conservative is beginning to sound "liberal" . It is called realignment, last having occurred in 1980 when the New Deal was sort of shown the door. It has been prompted by
a number of things: evangelicization of the G.O.P.;the failure of "Reaganomics" to cauterize the economic gap widening to the detriment of the middle class;swelling base of hispanic, latin and non-white voters simply not adaptable to the white rotarian face of the Republican Party;Pat Robertson -infinitely more alien than even Al Sharpton; Schiavo-which illumined the GOP myth of less government;and George Walker Bush whose legacy would have been a whole lot better had John Kerry won. (See the Washington Post article "Hoover move over" There is no reversing it,especially with the names of young Americans dying in a war which everybody but Dick Chenyny thinks was a mistake. The White House - D, 40 more D seats in the House, half dozen more D's in the Senate. It is going to be a considerable electoral winter for my conservative brothers and sisters.It is not that the Independenst are totally down wioth the Deomcrats becsue, hell, we've got plenty of flaws just like your movement has some very worhthile oints. It is just what has happened and it will take at least a decade for the pendulum to swing back- which it assuredly will- in the conservative direction. As a Catholic, an entreprenuer and a father, I think the conservative movement has made some worthtwhile contributions to American progress.

[Curtis Beebe]

Damn, I guess I'm a liberal. Got the news at a party the other night. Apparently the symptoms are: listening to NPR, reading the Times, thinking the war is a mistake, and believing that the government has no business in my business (or bedroom).
This was quite a shock for someone who considers himself a second-ammendment Goldwater conservative who was the Treasurer of the Young Republicans campaigned for Reagan.

I think the National GOP folks may finally realize that they've gone too far right, but I'm afraid the locals don't get it, yet.

[Geraldine Custer]

Republicans will never be impeached for perjury - because they will not testify under oath, in public, or on the record.