Cut To The Chase - Roger's A Freakin' Lib

Not that it matters, or means anything as far as how I might regard Roger Simon. There's a too complex discussion going on, too complex for my word and week weary brain right now, anyway. It's available through the link. But below is something from Roger Simon which, while not surprising, absolutely fascinated me for what it says about blogging and bloggers as a whole.

Roger's views, mine added after second dash in italics:

Woman's right to choose - favor - with restrictions for age and term and no taxpayer funding
Gay marriage - favor (neither presidential candidate did) - oppose
Stem cell research - favor - with good guidelines
Death penalty - oppose (except in rare case of political mass murderers like Hitler, Saddam whose supporters could release from jail) - favor
National health insurance - basically favor - don't think anyone has come up with good system yet - open to options, doubt the government can deliver
Global warming - agnostic, don't know enough - don't care
Energy - completely favor conservation and alternative source research - support that and new sources, including drilling and nuclear power
General economics and taxation - I'm with Chairman Deng Tsiao Peng on this ("I don't care whether a cat is black or white, only if catches mice."). Show me what works and I'm with you. The ideological arguments are way too 19th Century on this one. - open to VAT or other alternatives, generally fiscally conservative
Immigration - I'm with Bush here (in other words more liberal, in the conventional sense, than most Dems and Republicans, ). - tightly controlled and legal with enforced assimilation
War on Terror - as everyone knows, I favor (in part because it seems in harmony with my views above- confusing, huh?) - favor

What fascinated me wasn't Roger's politics, it was how he is viewed as some Far Right Winger or conservative by many simply because he supports the war. Face it, anyone who wears pajamas has to be a damned lib. ; )

For all the talk of a two party, or two ideology blogosphere around Left and Right (I'm an Independent BTW), if the GWOT went away as an issue, the blogosphere has the potential to explode and reunify around some drastically different paradigms we can not even predict.

The best of it is comprised of individuals. When people start grouping any amorphous all, and worse, act, think and react like such a thing actually exists, my scratch a liberal get a fascist warning light starts going off.

That is why the over-long argument initiated by Greenwald I mentioned above is putting me to sleep.

Perhaps QandO sums it up best.

Comments

[agent bedhead]

Inside blogging. Didn't you smack me good the last time I did this? ;-)

[Dan]

Yeah, you're right. Wanna spank me??? lol

[agent bedhead]

Anytime, dahling. You know the drill.

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