In article <220120070804500652% id>,
sbt <> wrote:
> In article <timmcn->, Tim
> McNamara <> wrote:
>
> > In article <michelle->,
> > Michelle Steiner <> wrote:
> >
> > > In article <> ,
> > > (Matthew T. Russotto) wrote:
> > >
> > > > We've got John McCain(R), who acts mostly like a Democrat but
> > > > remembers he's a Republican when the subject of censorship
> > > > comes up (he's for it).
> > >
> > > Acts like a Democrat? He's anti-choice and homophobic. He is
> > > about as much of a Democrat as Hatch.
> > >
> > > > Hillary Clinton, your standard old school bleeding heart
> > > > liberal, only without a heart.
> > >
> > > LOL. She's barely left of her centrist husband.
> >
> > How left HRC looks depends on where one stands in the political
> > spectrum. She looks mighty leftist if you're a right-wing nutbar.
> > I find her a bit far to the right for my tastes.
>
> And for some (many?) of us, she is far to the left on some issues
> (e.g. gun control) and a bit to the right on others (e.g. Iraq). Of
> course, this is true of a lot of politicians. Where you would place
> her on the spectrum depends, in large part, on how you prioritize the
> multitude of issues.
I think that's quite true. Most politicians are going to have opinions
spread across a bit of the spectrum- at least if they have a brain and
actually use it to think about issues. Neither the right nor the left
has a lock on good ideas.
However, setting aside the rabid, often fact-challenged weirdness that
is the NRA Web site and a few other kooks, I'm not finding anything
substantive on HRC's gun control position. Indeed, pretty much all I
find about gun control on the Internet is the ravings of a variety of
government-hating whackos with a poor command of both rational thought
and the English language. Gun control is dead, the NRA won, life goes
on.