What exactly is a 'moderate republican'?

Dan Beard at the Boston Globe discussed repub infighting.

Colin Powell issued a sharp rebuke Tuesday night to Rush Limbaugh and Dick Cheney for trying to exclude him from the backbiting Republican Party.

Before some 1,500 business leaders in Boston, as well as Patriots quarterback Tom Brady and wife Gisele Bundchen, the retired general and former secretary of state spoke openly of the dispute roiling the Grand Old Party after election setbacks and polls putting its popularity at roughly one of five Americans.

"Rush Limbaugh says, 'Get out of the Republican Party.' Dick Cheney says, 'He's already out.' I may be out of their version of the Republican Party, but there's another version of the Republican Party waiting to emerge once again," Powell told the crowd.

Again, what is a 'moderate republican'?  I mean Secretary Powell voted for Obama.  Even Senator Chase from Rhode Island refused to vote for a Democrat in 2004.  And just an aside here, Senator Whitehouse who took Chase's seat is doing a bang up job as far as I am concerned.  We do much better with Democrats than moderate repubs.

I think it is difficult to define a 'moderate repub' but I think the following list may shed some light:

1.               A moderate repub believes in outsourcing, but not overly so.

2.               A moderate repub does not like welfare, but not overly so.

3.               A moderate repub believes the poor do not deserve medical care, but not overly so.

4.               A moderate repub believes in a strong defense, but not overly so.

5.               A moderate repub would like to see Roe v. Wade be overturned, but not overly so.

6.               A moderate repub likes big corporations and wishes them to succeed, but not overly so.

7.               A moderate repub thinks that the war on drugs is succeeding, but not overly so.

8.               A moderate repub thinks the rich pay too many taxes, but not overly so.

9.               A moderate repub thinks that corporations should have the same rights as real people, but not                      overly so.

10.            A moderate repub is against the minimum wage, but not overly so.

11.            A moderate repub is for enhanced interrogation, but not overly so.

12.            A moderate repub is against prosecuting war criminals working in w's admin, but not overly so.

13.            A moderate repub is kind of against torture, but not overly so.

14.            A moderate repub is against affirmative action.

15.            A moderate repub likes to get high but not overly so.

You get the idea. A moderate repub is willing to back Genghis Kahn, and really does not wish to know exactly what he has been  doing. But there is a civil war going on within the repub party. Newt and rush and cheney pretend to own the throne. Hell, cheney is representing the repubs tomorrow and is giving a response to Our President's speech on national security.

And the trio wish that Powell and other 'moderates' were out of the repub party. If the moderates were to leave the party, I guess that would drop enrollment to fifteen percent instead of twenty would it not? Or perhaps eighteen percent. But who cares?

Well I care because I wish the two 'sides' would destroy each other.  It is fun to watch the enemy fight.

But there is another fight brewing that I relish above all. The demon rush (Godzilla) is being taken on by mighty Michael Savage (King Kong).

Now rush is such an easy target; I mean he is ugly, fat, pornographically rich, racist, a masoginist to the last, bombastic, fascistic, lying son of a bitch.  When I have drawn a blank, when I absolutely cannot come up with anything to blog about, I think: what is that fat asshat doing today?

Michael Savage is a prick. Every bit as conservative as rush.

Interesting bit of history.  Michael Savage was born Michael Weiner. Like you can make up sh.. like this.

Michael Savage hates blacks, Hispanics, Mexicans, Central Americans, women, poor people, liberals, Democrats, happy people, real journalists, and short people.  The short people part I kind of madeup, but it fits the general pattern, do you not think? Wiki has a lot to say about the Savage, here is just a taste:

The rejection of his 1994 manuscript prompted him to record a demo tape with a mock radio talk show about illegal immigrantsepidemics. He mailed this tape to 250 radio stations in an attempt to change careers and become a radio talk show host.^[13][16] On March 21, 1994, Savage began his radio career on KGO (a San Francisco news/talk radio station) as a fill-in host for the liberal Ray Taliaferro. Less than a year later he was given a weekday show on KGO's sister station, KSFO. and

And, this demagogue actually CHOSE the name Savage. He loves what he has become. Who he is. A hateful, egoistical, egotistical blustery snarler.

They played a tape from an 'appearance' on NPR the other day. The same type of appearance that could have been made a hundred years ago, from his phone. He had agreed to take 'on the air' calls and to answer the best he could.

A young man came on the line asking a simple question about torture or some such.  The young man was civil, courteous, used no swear words and called no one names. It was a simple question. Savage said something like this:

Who do you think you are. I mean I am supposed to talk to some idiot in his pajamas with a PC in his mom's basement.

Old Mike kind of went on and on and then hung up. Such a cheery guy this Savage. Well, because of his wonderful attitude and past performances including his opinions concerning international relations-lets nuke Iran, lets nuke Syria, lets.....Savage found himself on a kind of list.  A list of savages put together in England.

Well Mike had wished to travel abroad and spread his cancerous viruses throughout the globe. But when he signed up for his British Bigot tour, he found that he was an undesirable.

You know, w had this list of over a million people who basically could not fly in this country. Not just to this country, but in this country as well.  If your name appeared on the list, your reservation was cancelled.

Well, you can imagine, England has been attempting to keep out savages since Roman Times. Eventually, the savages--like the Angles--kind of won the day. But savagery is in the mind of the beholder, so to speak. Well this Savage, took umbrage from all this and evidently sought allies to take up the fight against the socialistic barbaric English. It looks like rush did not come to his aid:

All is not well in the world of talk radio today, as an internecine spat is being brewed up by right-wing host Michael Savage, who today spent a portion of his airtime criticizing fellow conservative talker Rush Limbaugh. Oh noes! What has come between the two men? England, it seems! Well, according to Media Matters, here's what Savage said:

SAVAGE: And yet here in America, I've had some people come to my aid. They see the bigger picture. They're not like [Bill] O'Reilly; they're not like Limbaugh, who's the biggest disappointment of all. Limbaugh has turned out to be the biggest phony of all of them, all of them. Amongst all of them, he is the biggest fraud. Rush Limbaugh is a fraud. When he was accused of the drug usage, I supported him. But that man is a one-way street. It's all about him. He's in it for nobody but himself.

Jason Linkons, Huffpo.

Now I would bet the Japanese will beat us to the punch on all of this.  Rush vs. The Savage.