Anyway who knows me knows I am on the extreme left on most issues. I do have my doubts about the gay marriage issue, but let's disregard that for the moment.
On this forum I have sometimes taken a middle-ground, devil's advocate stance. Face it. We live in very liberal, accepting Seattle. Right or wrong, we are often clouded by where we live. As the last few elections have shown, our views are not shared by many in this nation. As musch as I like The White Papers, I don't enjoy preaching to the choir; I will sometimes take a more middle ground to foster debate (sorry, I don't know how to be a right-wing Nazi!). Please understand my strategy and motivation in this.
Having said that, if I had to choose between a politician who will lose based on his/her principles and one who might win because s/he knows how to make intelligent compromises, I will pick the latter in almost all cases. I am liberal (progressive, whatever) but I am not blind.
