What Is A Moderate? (Ron Paul, illegal, death, marijuana)

[Electric Blue]

Lots of people like to call themselves that. My question is,for those on here that call themselves "centrists"or moderates,what does that mean? What do you stand for?

[afoigrokerkok]

In my experience, they generally tend to be fairly hardcore liberals masquerading as something else.

Having said that, I call myself socially moderate and fiscally conservative. I will tell you about my social stances since I call myself a social moderate. I do not call myself a moderate in general, because of my views on economic issues.

I am pro-gay rights. I am pro-gun rights. I have mixed feelings about the abortion issue. I generally support being tough on crime but have concerns about the death penalty. I am pro-relaxing pot laws but do not support outright legalization until some test is developed to determine marijuana content in a person's blood for the purpose of determining whether a person should be subejct to DWI/DUI charges if they drive after smoking it - if a test is developed, I would support legalization. I am pro-gambling legalization. I am adamantly against illegal immigration. I believe in AGW, but do not agree with the hardcore leftists on how to should solve it (I realize this is probably more of a fiscal issue than a social one, but it's sort of a social issue). On defense issues (if you could call them social issues), my philosophy is somewhere in between Obama/W/Romney's and the non-interventionist foreign policy that Ron Paul and some others support.