How partisan are you?

Question

Do you believe that partial birth and late term abortions should be included in "a woman's right to choose"?
Do you believe that "the right to bear arms" includes assault-rifles?
Do complain about the record-high trade deficit, but only buy import vehicles?
Did you think that Clarence Thomas should not be on the Supreme Court because he talked about sexual matters with his assistant (Anita Hill), but defended Bill Clinton's right to be president when he was accused of sexual harassment by Paula Jones.
That's all I got time for right now. I have to get back to work.

Answer 1

"Right to choose" is a misnomer. You can say I should have the right to choose whether I want to steal or not, or whether I want to beat someone up. i can't choose because it affects others, just as abortion does. I only believe in abortion in extreme circumstances and those do not include partial birth and late term abortions.
I believe the right to bear arms does include assault rifles. I have the Constitutional right to protect myself from criminals and tyranny by any means I deem appropriate.
I don't complain about the trade deficit but i can tell you this; very few cars sold in America today are built overseas. Honda and Toyota build most of their cars sold in America right here in America and sales of their corporations are sold on the American stock exchanges. Automobiles contribute very little to the trade deficit.
Clarence Thomas mad a mistake by being overly friendly with his assistant but it has nothing to do with his ability to judge the Constitutionality of legislation. He is very qualified to perform that task and that is what is asked of him. He recognized tht Bill Clinton also engaged in inappropriate activity but that it was not illegal and it did not compromise his ability to perform his duties as President of the US. There is no conflict or contradiction here.

As for your original question, the problem in America today is that indiviual citizens follow their party blindly. Once they determine which party they most closely associate with they will automatically agree with every aspect of that party's platform. We don't even need political parties anymore, as each candidate for office should stand on his or her own merits and beliefs.

Answer 2

Partisan implies I would stick to one party... not at all.

I'm a realist.

Edit to answer your specific questions:

- I believe that legally, we have to allow anyone to do what they wish with their body. The "partial birth and late term abortion" issue is difficult, because the right over-simplifies it, so I'm not specifically going to address that issue in that light.

What I will say about that, though, is that my belief is that if it's viable outside of the womb, it should be removed by surgery, and raised by an adoptive family. Truthfully, abortions at the end of pregnancy are very very rare and usually only in cases when there's no way to get it out without killing the mother.

- I believe that all weapons should be available, barring nuclear, chemical, and biological. I do believe that it is a Constitutional right.

- I buy what works. The fact is that the American car companies buy parts from overseas and the foreign car companies employ large numbers of American people. The Honda I drive was built in America using American labor, and uses a decent number of American parts. I don't complain much about the trade deficit. However, what is an issue is outsourcing jobs to other countries.

- I don't care much about Clarence Thomas and didn't think much about the Anita Hill scandal when it happened. I didn't treat the Clinton issue any differently. That's their private lives.

I'm a registered Democrat, but I'm a bit further left than your average liberal... but I have some conservative beliefs as well... I don't like taxation and am torn intellectually on what to do about it.

Edit2: From Samantha "How can any reasonable person watch a doctor pull out a live baby ...almost all the way out and then pierce its brain to kill it"

Put down the kool-aid for a second and toss the propaganda out the window... it doesn't actually happen like that.

Answer 3

PBA and late-term - no, unless it's to protect the life of the mother. Life.

"Assault rifles" - that's not a term of art. If you say "it doesn't include assault rifles" then Pelosi et al will just define everything down to a .22 as an "assault rifle." That's how they do EVERYTHING.

Clarence Thomas said he never said the things Hill said he said. Hill said he said them out in front of everyone. Nobody corroborated it except someone whom Thomas had fired, ironically, for making incendiary and bigoted remarks. Hill's sole fresh complaint witness placed the fresh complaint 6 months before Hill started working for Thomas and then took a break and then came back and changed her testimony. Hill gave contradictory accounts of the same events over a 48-hour period.

Conversely, the accusations about Clinton were corroborated by DNA evidence.

So, while I don't equate the allegations, and while I also don't think Clinton's sex acts should outweight his decent economic performance - produced largely by continuing almost everything Reagan had put into place and in some cases expanding on it - I think the "partisan" question should be, do you actually "believe Anita Hill?" I know the question is dated but to say you "believe Anita" is to disclaim any capacity for objectivity.

I've always been basically a libertarian in terms of individual rights. I'd been spoond fed the class-wafare stuff but became what you might call an "economic conservative" when I started reading up on economics and finance - raw data and studies by actual economists, not political hacks. But I remained a registered Democrat - I thought the liberal wing of the party had deliberately misled people about economic issues but I didn't attribute the dishonesty to the party as a whole. But when I saw Democrat after Democrat get up on tv and look at the camera and say they "believed Anita Hill" I couldn't understand how they could do that. I wondered which of her three or four versions of events did they believe? I wondered if that meant they were calling dozens of other people liars? That's when I said enough is enough, there is nothing left in that party for me. It's not that that case was important to me, it's just that no thinking person could "believe" her and yet they said they did - for political expediency they were willing to say they believed someone who was totally incredible, someone who had contradicted herself repeatedly.

Answer 4

I don't think I'm so much "partisan" as know what I think to be right or wrong....not middle of the road. And I don't want a politician who is supposed to be "representing me" to have opposite views to my own.

All you have to do is really look at what partial birth abortion and late term abortions are.....why should a woman choose to kill a real live baby? How can any reasonable person watch a doctor pull out a live baby ...almost all the way out and then pierce its brain to kill it...and say that's o.k....I can't...no matter what the mother might choose then. She had a choice before she got pregnant.

And there are so many women who would like to have a child who can't. I happen to know because I have a daughter who is one of them. The mother has no excuse for not allowing the child to live.

Not sure that there won't come a day that the average person might need an assault rifle. Think it can't happen? Think again!
Let's just suppose that there are all kinds of hidden terrorist cells just waiting for the word to start Jahad....a holy war in the steets and in our homes. Would you want one then? Because the government, the police , and anyone else wouldn't be able to protect you...only yourself. In ordinary life we see no need for them....but that wouldn't be an ordinary situation. It's very possible it could happen....the extreme terrorists are promising
they are waiting for the word. Do you believe them or not?

Yes...we should pay attention to USA made items to help our own economy. Unfortunately, most people only look at the bottom dollar.

You obviously only know what you heard from the media about Clarence Thomas. They proved later it was all made up....but did you hear about that? No...they just go on talking about it as if it really happened. We are lucky to have him....and Bill Clinton was accused of a lot more than just Paula Jones. In Britain he was thrown out of Oxford college for a rape charge....and it was only one of many things he did...... He was a national disgrace! And we have him to thank today that we didn't get Osama Ben Loden (not sure how to spell it)....they had 13 chances to get him....he never had the courage to do it.

Stop listening just to the general media....and find out from more sources what really happened. You can't believe the liberal news media who has their own partisan agenda. Check the facts that can be proved...not just what some says is so.....

Global warming might be a good place to start right now. Look out when everyone starts telling you "we have a crisis".

Answer 5

The "foray" into ny Governors race is about determining who will run on the Democratic fee ticket and has not something to do with Republicans. he's being the chief of his get jointly and attempting to effect who ought to signify the Democratic get jointly. that is a classic area of his position as get jointly chief and has not something to do with the republican get jointly so how do you act bi-partisan at the same time as the issue in hardship-free words concerns democrats? Do you imagine he ought to enable republicans decide on who the Democrats ought to run? it really is finished nonsense. You for sure do not realize the political gadget nor understand what the note bi-partisan skill. Or are you want different "conservatives" who decide on to regulate political guidelines and traditions and carry our first Black President to a diverse customary purely because he's not a white guy.

Answer 6

1. Don't really care. I'm a man, so the abortion topic doesn't really apply to me. But in most cases, I think planned abortions should be done earlier rather then later.
2. to an extent. Not as freely available as they are now, but not completely banned.
3. drive a Ford, but I wish they made vehicles as good as foreign cars.
4. No.

Answer 7

I'm first tri-mester only
I own an SKS but it's not fully auto.. nor do I think people should have fully automatic weapons
I own a Saturn
Clarence Thomas doesn't bother me

I'm a democrat

Answer 8

I'm against abortion after the fetus' association areas are formed

I'm against assult rifles.

I don't drive, this doesn't apply to be.

I don't know much about him to judge. I think president clinton was judged to harshly on the whole monica scandal.

Answer 9

To some extent you are mixing up partisan with ideology. Only your last question deals with partisinship, the 1st 3 are ideological.

My answers are:
No
Yes
No
No

Answer 10

too late. already fell off the fence
1 no comment. as a man i have no right to choose
2 don know, semi or auto ?
3 didn't u take macro n micro econ in school?
4 didn't know justice was blind?