Where Are the Moderate Voices?

Where Are the Moderate Voices?

When almost everything I read and see on television that concerns our country – the budget, health care, the economy, the war, security, – is dominated by the hard-right, the neo-conservatives, it concerns me that our moderate Republicans seem to have disappeared. On rare occasions the media will report unrest from a few conservatives, but there is no voice of moderation.

Are there no moderates left in the Republican Party? Do all Republicans think that a $500 billion dollar deficit is nothing to worry about? Do all Republicans feel 500 dead Americans and thousand of wounded soldiers are not a concern? Do all Republicans consider the budget cuts that drastically affected the disabled, the children, the working poor, the elderly and the sick are fair equitable?

Have Karl Rove, Dick Cheney and Tom DeLay so intimidated the moderate Republican congress men and women (and in my heart of heart, I hope the moderates represent the majority of the party) that they fear for their positions and offices? Our senators and representatives have become more accountable to the Republican Party leadership than to our citizens – and somehow it seems the citizens should be more important than the party.

The Liberalator