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To: Dale Baker who wrote (18541)	5/13/2006 10:40:14 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541851

I will open the floor to definitions of a true centrist in today's political climate I don't think there's any such thing as a centrist position. I've given it a lot of though since you started the thread and don't think it exists. I read a lot of centrist blogs not because they espouse a centrist position, which I cannot seem to divine, but because they eschew the polarized stuff so they are readable and more rational. I think that what you have in the center is not centrist positions but moderation, less affect, more ambiguity, more pragmatism, less ideology, less partisanship. It's more a temperament than a position, IMO. since I am perceived by some (on the right, you have to admit), to be left of true center FWIW, I don't think you're left of center, at least not by a notable. Just for some reason more sensitized to crap from the right than crap from the left. Or perhaps its crappers from the right than crappers from the left.

To: Dale Baker who wrote (18541)	5/13/2006 10:44:59 AM
From: MrLucky	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541851

Here's an idea - since I am perceived by some (on the right, you have to admit), to be left of true center, I will open the floor to definitions of a true centrist in today's political climate. Like I said before, who and what do they support and who and what do they oppose? Last sentence: Appears you are looking for names of candidates, policies and concepts. True? I'm not talking about where the left or right thinks the center SHOULD be, but where it is likely to come down in November 2006 and 2008. I'm not clairvoyant enuf to know what you are asking. In 2004, the center ended up in Ohio. <g>