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Related: About this forumIs this a fair way to describe Hillary on policy?
Foreign Affairs. Conservative
Economic Affairs. Moderate
Social Issues. Liberal
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Is this a fair way to describe Hillary on policy? (Original Post)
Funtatlaguy
Mar 2016
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fleur-de-lisa
(14,628 posts)1. I would characterize her stance on economic affairs as
conservative.
lapfog_1
(29,223 posts)2. a bit charitable
Foreign Affairs. PNAC.
Economic Affairs. Corporatism.
Social Issues. Recently liberal except for women's issues.
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)3. I'll summarize it further for you: she's to the right of Obama. n/t
Cobalt Violet
(9,905 posts)4. almost. She's not economically moderate. She is Conservative.
casperthegm
(643 posts)5. It depends when you ask her
Or who she is talking to....
auntpurl
(4,311 posts)6. I'd go moderate, moderate, liberal.
Almost exactly the same as me.
Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)7. On all affairs: poltically expedient
jeff47
(26,549 posts)8. No, a conservative in foreign affairs would be less interested in "foreign entanglements"
as they call them.
On foreign affairs, she's a neoliberal. Like Dick Cheney.
She's also not a liberal on social issues. Supports restrictions on abortion as long as she has a fig leaf, wants to continue the drug war, and so on.
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)10. Robert Kagan supports her...
BernieforPres2016
(3,017 posts)9. I would go with
Foreign Affairs: Neocon
Economic Affairs: Corrupt
Social Issues: Blows with the wind
tk2kewl
(18,133 posts)11. economic affairs: neoliberal globalist
corruption is just a side effect
otherwise i agree
bigwillq
(72,790 posts)13. .....
Orsino
(37,428 posts)12. #feelthehill
#notveryrepublican
Foreign affairs - Neo-con
Economic affairs - Reaganomics
Social issues - poll-driven
MisterP
(23,730 posts)15. Dora la Bombeadora