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To: DMaA who wrote (296045)	3/11/2009 1:40:35 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793843

If you believe it is over balanced in favor of the state you are a rightist. Interesting that your definition relies on your opinions of the current balance, rather than your overall views (thus a mild-libertarian living in an extremely libertarian state would be a leftist, but in your country he'd be a rightist). In our country, you would toss fascists out of the definition of rightist (in fact your definition would call them leftists), but add libertarians (even if their more focused on legalizing drugs, prostitution, all sorts of porn, etc., less focused on taxes, and they want to slash the military until its very small). There is no such thing as a centrist. It would presumably be a small group, but what about people who think the balance is exactly right?

To: DMaA who wrote (296045)	3/11/2009 3:55:46 PM
From: KLP	1 Recommendation Respond to of 793843

Centerists: They used to be called Mugwumps... Origin of the term Image:Charles-Anderson-Dana.png Charles Anderson Dana Dictionaries report "mugguomp" was an Algonquin word meaning "person of importance" or "war leader." Charles Anderson Dana, the colorful newspaperman and editor of the New York Sun, is said to have given the Mugwumps their political moniker. Dana made the term plural and derided them as amateurs and public moralists.[7] During the 1884 campaign, they were often portrayed as "fence-sitters," with part of their body on the side of the Democrats and the other on the side of the Republicans. (Their "mug" on one side of the fence, and their "wump" on the other.) Angry Republicans like Roscoe Conkling sometimes hinted they were homosexual, calling them "Man milliners." [8] The epithet "goody-goody" from the 1880s goo-goo from the 1890s, a corruption of "good government," was used in a similar derogatory manner. Whereas mugwump has become an obscure and almost forgotten political moniker, goo-goo has been revivified, especially in Chicago, by the political columns of Mike Royko.[9] en.citizendium.org 8888888 A wonderful site with some of the old Mugwump cartoons…. xroads.virginia.edu