"In politics, a moderate is an individual who holds an intermediate position between those generally classified as being left-wing, liberal, or socialist and those seen as right-wing, conservative, or capitalist. An alternate definition, and one widely held among swing voters, is that a moderate is one who has firm convictions on all issues, yet some convictions fall just to the left of the spectrum and some fall just to the right.

Political moderates usually seek conciliation between the views of various political parties, and often take positions partially derived from opposite views." -Wikipedia

*ahem* Thanks, Wiki! Couldn't have said it better myself! If this sounds like you, then it's time to join!

Feel free to make your own banners and avatars! Show your support!

Members:
- iRock cB
- GREASEbaby
- Spirited Away
- Kathleen
- happykmd
- rawr SOCK

YES OMG THANK YOU.

Obviously I'm not a member, but I'm so glad this is here. Where are the right-wingers?

Oops, clearly I can't read.

^ You could join... you know we're cooler...

Heehee I'm a moderate

if you steal our members, i will be forced to Kill, Crush, Maim, and Destroy

= )

I suppose I belong here?

My loyalty to the left and right is very... random.

HEY - JAMES! I don't like your tone. And uhh I'll join this one.

Wow. You must find this to be 'amusing'. I find it to be boring but oh well.
Go Moderates!

Oh my. YES!

Sign me up.

LOL James.. Spam their topics!

Okay yeah, I'm just kidding, please don't do that.

But eh.. I fit in more with the left-minded, I won't be leaving the club I created.

Please, don't waste your time. Use your effort twords your world domination. You'll have better luck there.
Hey, watch it Dani! I can do the same... :P j/k

Hey Sandra, do you wanna join? I'd love to have you on here. :D

pssh! i could SO KCMD you!

Ha, moderates. i.e., people who can't make up their mind

It's like political agnositicism.

Being a moderate doesn't mean a person can't make up his mind on any issues; it just means that his decisions and opinions don't fall along a single political spectrum. One could say a moderate is better at making up his mind, because his thinking doesn't need to conform to the ideologies of a single political party or church.

Did anybody say SPAM? I'm up for it!!

Smart girl. (Girl, woman, whatever...)

We made up our mind about not dividing our loyalties to any specific party and are forced to align ourselves with those who are more extreme than us.

Though it looks a position of "no position" to others, it is a position of those who are not ruled by the certitude (or should I say dogmatism) of the left and right, one that is never complacent.

This is not to say that we support moderation in principle, but that our principles are not anchored to any party's predetermined policies.

And, of course, what Michael said as well.

*appluads michael and fae for their defense/definition of moderate...ness? ism? moderation? moderacy?*


oh look. i got sidetracked..

More to the point, not taking a position on the political spectrum should not be confused with not taking a position on specific political issues.

I think it's better to say "This is how I feel about this one, specific issue," rather than to argue, "This is my opinion on a vague political spectrum that has little to do with specific issues."

On the political Cartesian plane, moderates would belong somewhere around the origin. Screw the "spectrum"!

OOH! OOH! ELAINE WANTS TO JOIN! :)

This one should be more interesting than the other ones 'cause we believe in different things.

I'm mostly liberal. An environmentalist, but conservative on some issues.

I was just kidding, hence the ;-)

Well, I wanted to kill your ;-) anyway because my face was >=O after reading it. After all, someone might have taken you seriously.


Off-topic-ish here. If Michael wasn't younger than me, I would have proposed to him a while ago...

But people take all sorts of stupid things seriously.

I don't think I'm that much younger...

And this need not to be one of them. Well, what you guys said cannot be placed in the stupid category. It was rather witty, but still... >=O

Michael, will you marry me? Answer quietly because I fear that Sammi will overhear and murder me with her Buffy vampire slaying tools.

I dunno if being moderates and only know each other over the Internet is an excellent basis for a marriage; then again, Fae, we probably have stronger bond than a lot of couples that get married these days.

Is that a "no"?

a cb wedding! how exciting!

we could have a reception in chat...

James, his response sounded negative. I think I got shot down.

fae, shh.

of course he didnt say no, now let me have my wedding planning fun.

But.... but I just got SHOT DOWN! If you're planning a wedding, you better find someone else for me to marry... though, I'm not sure if I would want to marry anyone else from cB.

no no, im sure we can blackmail michael. you just sit tight.

athough, im sure we could always get jason to marry you. heh. THAT would be fun...

I think that was a 'yes'. But then again, I might be wrong. Michael is mysterious.

Fae, if we were married, you'd have to live in my dorm room.

Jason... Jason... who? Remember that I chose Michael because he's uber smart and there's not that big of an age gap between us.

Another reason why I'd marry the guy.


And I would mind? There'll be less space to clean and less people to cook for. But I can see where this is going, Michael. I understand, you don't need to make any excuses. I'll just find a bridge somewhere.

^Don't you die on me now, woman.

I suppose talking about two moderates getting married is technically on-topic..?

dani, stop being mod like! you follow my will, remember?

fae, stop being such a pesimist. you are delightful, and you SHALL be married. we wont have you growing up and old spinster, no sir.

Why is Kathleen in the Republican Club too?

Two moderates getting married is on topic as it gets, I suppose. Haha. Then again, there aren't any moderates getting married in this thread anytime soon.

"Old spinster"... haha, that really made me feel better, James.

*jumps*

Aw, no need to find a bridge! You can live in the dorm room as long as you clean the small bathroom.

i did say that you WONT be an old spinster, if that helps.

and hey, he said you could live in the dorm. progress!

I support this union.

heh.

ladies and gentlemen, welcome to CB's official club for selective breeding.

There. I fixed it for you. Now you don't look so damned ignorant. sorry, I couldn't help it.


Anyways, looks like I need to update the list lol. Who's in?

If you read the whole thread, you'd realize I was kidding, ya damn ho . Hence, the ;).

^ hahaha. You were kidding with the wrong crowd!!!


PS. I jumped the bridge on this thread for a while because I got dumped.

Ha, I was kidding with you as well.

Oh, whoawhoawhoa, that was MOD LIKE?! I say that was me finding a loophole. And now I must issue myself a verbal warning. /late

*leaves this poor club alone*