What is a Moderate Politician?

In my opinion, a moderate is a politician who does not subscribe to, nor support, any extreme conservative or liberal policy. He or she is someone who judges each policy or bill of law, or existing law, on the basis of its common sense consequences, and whether or not it is in conformance wit the literal meaning of the Constitution.

An ideal moderate does NOT vote on a bill of law according to the dictates of their political party, or some political or business influence that he or she is being pressured to give in to. Let me give you an example of an extreme policy that has recently been voted into law. This is of course the new Health Law voted into law by the Democrats. Does anyone think that there was no political pressure involved in the votes to pass it? A lot of people believe that this law is actually not in conformance with the Constitution and should actually be repealed.

Here is a policy that some Republicans or conservatives are trying to promote as something that should be done: Cut or eliminate Social Security and Medicare. These extreme ideas are the reason why I will not vote for the Republicans this year, even though I am a conservative or moderate on most issues. One thing I noticed about the "cut Social Security, etc." people is that they are generally young, healthy, and already rich or high income types that may never need SS or Medicare. Fine idea. These people can refuse the benefits if they don't need them. But there are people who do need the benefits: the elderly, the sick, the handicapped, and the poor who don't make enough money to save for their retirement or pay for expensive medical services. So, these benefits are expensive, but there is a lot of stupid pork spending that should be eliminated first before we even consider cutting SS or Medicare.