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To: Bridge Player who wrote (59282)	4/15/2008 6:43:20 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 543050

I think that the RINOs, as a group, are the closest thing to moderate that we have in politics right now. If we were to come up with a standard, that would be the place to start. Democrats are harder because we have to look at individuals. The party faithful haven't identified outcasts for us as have the Republicans. Certainly those Democrats who are not affiliated with the DLC would have already self identified, by default, as not moderate. But membership in it is not adequate for inclusion as a moderate, simply as relatively moderate for a Democrat or possibly conservative. I admit I don't pay much attention to individual politicians. I'm into ideas and the persons to me are secondary, at best, mostly invisible. I understand that both the people and the ideas are important, I'm just more interested in one than the other. So I can't with sufficient knowledge identify any Democrats. I'm content to let folks like the centrist coalition do it. I have their bloggers bookmarked and prefer them as sources. That's my way of reducing partisan excess in my life.