Even though the 4th fell in the middle of the week, throwing off my internal clock, I had a quite pleasent holiday.
The evening of the 4rd, we had friends over for board and card gaming. Afterwards, when my sweetie-wfe had gone to bed, it turned into a lively politicla discussion with two progressive, two conervatives, and myself.
The 4th itself was a day spent with my sweetie-wife. We walked over amile through trails where the regions natural biome had been preserved. Then we played a card game of Dominion, she won, but our skills are so closely matched that most of the time it is the luck of the deck that makes the difference.
We finished with a nice dinner, hmmm steak, and watching the second half of 1982’s Cat People. I hadn’t seen the film since the early 80’s and my sweetie had never seen it unedited.
We did not go out to fireworks – I stayed in and watched a classic Noir film Naked City –so we did not see san diego grad goof.
Hope everyone had a fine and fun fourth.
I’m not suggesting that you should reject a pol because on one of the criteria he is a miss, but rather that those criteria don’t look that important to you from my point of view. When faced with a single politician that holds those anti-views,and speaks of libertarians in derisive tones, I’m thinking Rick Santorum, you stated a preference for that politician. So it seems to to me that you value those particular position much less than others.
I rarely apply litmus tests to politicians today. I gave up on Libertarian puritanism back in the 1990’s. I discovered the folly of that kind of voting only leads to the election of people like President Clinton, and does not promote libertarian policy.
Should I judge your political ideology based on your support of Obama?
Since you have declared support for politicians who are pro-life, anti-gay, for the drug war, and for the censorship of porn, I can only assume that these positions are of a lesser importance to you than other political stands.
Me? Conservative? Only If “conservative” can mean pro-choice, pro-gay rights, against the war on drugs, and against censorship of porn.