Comments on: America Is “Miss Independent” http://www.fitsnews.com/2009/10/22/america-is-miss-independent/ Politics, Sports and Pop Culture Tue, 14 Feb 2012 17:28:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: chris http://www.fitsnews.com/2009/10/22/america-is-miss-independent/#comment-72989 chris Sat, 24 Oct 2009 06:14:20 +0000 http://www.fitsnews.com/?p=31768#comment-72989 Great picture of Miss Independent. Love Kelly Clarkson! There is no perfect party, but I will stick with the Democrats. Great picture of Miss Independent. Love Kelly Clarkson!
There is no perfect party, but I will stick with the Democrats.

]]> By: Brandon http://www.fitsnews.com/2009/10/22/america-is-miss-independent/#comment-72946 Brandon Fri, 23 Oct 2009 19:13:27 +0000 http://www.fitsnews.com/?p=31768#comment-72946 There is a way to get them both back on the straight and narrow. Repeat after me... TERM LIMITS...TERM LIMITS...TERM LIMITS... There is a way to get them both back on the straight and narrow.
Repeat after me…
TERM LIMITS…TERM LIMITS…TERM LIMITS…

]]> By: Mike http://www.fitsnews.com/2009/10/22/america-is-miss-independent/#comment-72892 Mike Fri, 23 Oct 2009 08:30:51 +0000 http://www.fitsnews.com/?p=31768#comment-72892 Easy, but true. Both parties suck. Easy, but true. Both parties suck.

]]> By: Ronbo http://www.fitsnews.com/2009/10/22/america-is-miss-independent/#comment-72873 Ronbo Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:16:46 +0000 http://www.fitsnews.com/?p=31768#comment-72873 The fact that so many voters don't identify with a party tells you they want to identify with a party that's, conveniently, matching up to your POV? Okay, that's a nice little fantasy. Maybe many of these voters are apolitical, or for other reasons aren't going to identify with a party. Any party. Maybe their views are not homogeneous and they are actually quite diverse, so your neat little "fiscally conservative, socially libertarian" construct won't fit (you think the greens will fit that? just to pick one group). WaPo published a lengthy analysis of independent voters back in 2007, and they don't all just happen to fit your conservative-libertarian label. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/30/AR2007063000859.html Money quote: "The survey data established five categories of independents: closet partisans on the left and right; ticket-splitters in the middle; those disillusioned with the system but still active politically; ideological straddlers whose positions on issues draw from both left and right; and a final group whose members are mostly disengaged from politics." Doesn't sound like a ready-made market for your Goldwater Republican-lite vision to me. The fact that so many voters don’t identify with a party tells you they want to identify with a party that’s, conveniently, matching up to your POV? Okay, that’s a nice little fantasy.
Maybe many of these voters are apolitical, or for other reasons aren’t going to identify with a party. Any party. Maybe their views are not homogeneous and they are actually quite diverse, so your neat little “fiscally conservative, socially libertarian” construct won’t fit (you think the greens will fit that? just to pick one group).
WaPo published a lengthy analysis of independent voters back in 2007, and they don’t all just happen to fit your conservative-libertarian label.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/30/AR2007063000859.html
Money quote:
“The survey data established five categories of independents: closet partisans on the left and right; ticket-splitters in the middle; those disillusioned with the system but still active politically; ideological straddlers whose positions on issues draw from both left and right; and a final group whose members are mostly disengaged from politics.”

Doesn’t sound like a ready-made market for your Goldwater Republican-lite vision to me.

]]> By: Morons http://www.fitsnews.com/2009/10/22/america-is-miss-independent/#comment-72858 Morons Thu, 22 Oct 2009 21:14:56 +0000 http://www.fitsnews.com/?p=31768#comment-72858 This was Kelly Clarkson before the cheeseburgers This was Kelly Clarkson before the cheeseburgers

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