In this election, the first Buddhist and Hindu Congressmen have been elected

• BobYoMeowMeow wrote on 2012-11-09 17:53

  Quote from Phunkie;978544:

  The only way Republicans can win in 2016 is if they come back to the center, instead of the far-right.

  
  
  all the Republicans the cat mentioned are moderate
  except for Sanctorum and Paul Ryan
  
  it's just that they all distanced themselves from Romney after the primaries and became silent
  except for Paul Ryan
• Kingofrunes wrote on 2012-11-09 18:02
  I like Moderate Republicans. I myself am a moderate who will lean either right or left pending on the issue so if there's some damn good Moderate Republicans up for re-election in 2016, I will be very pleased and will proudly cast my vote.
• TLCBonaparte wrote on 2012-11-09 19:05
  Maybe it's time to drop the title. Republican, Democrats, these are ideals no one man fully encompass. People can say they are this or that even if they only agree with a single aspect of the ideal. I am me, and I have my own ideas about the world, I am neither democrat nor republican, I agree with both on some but disagree on others. When people label themselves with an ideal, they will defend the ideal even when the criticism is agreeable to them, but the criticism is toward their title, so they feel the attack is toward them, so normally logical agreement can not be established because people assume the identity of their belief.
• Yoorah wrote on 2012-11-09 19:58
  My biggest disappointment is that they elected that retarded congresswoman who plays WoW. :(
• BobYoMeowMeow wrote on 2012-11-09 21:28

  Quote from TLCBonaparte;978621:

  Maybe it's time to drop the title. Republican, Democrats, these are ideals no one man fully encompass. People can say they are this or that even if they only agree with a single aspect of the ideal. I am me, and I have my own ideas about the world, I am neither democrat nor republican, I agree with both on some but disagree on others. When people label themselves with an ideal, they will defend the ideal even when the criticism is agreeable to them, but the criticism is toward their title, so they feel the attack is toward them, so normally logical agreement can not be established because people assume the identity of their belief.

  
  
  party title =/= ideals
  They just agree together in general on major things but not all the time.
  There are Democrats who are more conservative than the most moderate Republican and thus vote on the issues they agree with the Republicans on.
  Democrats disagree with each other, and Obama's first 2 years proved that.
  Meanwhile, the extreme right of the Republican party lead the Congress members into voting together and Republicans who would vote differently will be shamed into oblivion. That's why Romney's plan was the same as Bush's and McCain (the most moderate and respectable Republican congressman) threw in the shoe when he campaigned with the same plan. They want the plurality: the religious conservatives of America.
  Santorum
  [video=youtube;J9XmeqbOFWI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9XmeqbOFWI[/video]
  McCain
  [video=youtube;llef8ZRTWQo]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llef8ZRTWQo[/video]
  
  Obama never identified himself as a leader of the Democrats; he's just a conservative Democrat who overestimated the Republican Party's collectivism.
  

  Quote from Yoorah;978673:

  My biggest disappointment is that they elected that retarded congresswoman who plays WoW. :(

  
  
  thats because her opponents' attack campaign on her hobbies rather than her actual political stance backfired.
  and Maine is mostly Democrat anyways
  
  Edit: the cat will miss Hillary Clinton
  she would help with America's foreign policy a lot in the 2nd term