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To: RMF who wrote (42997)	4/29/2010 12:12:51 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71588

Everybody is going to be FORCED to move to the CENTER What does that mean? Your issues seems to be deficits, but there is nothing inherently centrist about lower deficits. Deficits aren't really a right/left issue. The balance of how they are addressed in terms of spending vs. taxes might be, but not the size of the debt or the deficits. In other areas are you looking for something somehow in between the two parties, or just something different? A coherent "centrist" ideology? Which is the way it should be and previously was. Before the growth of the conservative movement the left had the power and momentum. It wasn't necessary to move to the center, they just kept moving left, with the Republicans at the time alternatively joining in, or slowing things down a bit. Then for a time the conservatives had some power, when Regan was president. Then its been back and forth but with both Democrats and Republicans generally supporting expansion of government. Its very rarely been an issue of "centrism", or compromise as more than a tactical method to push one side or the others' overall agenda.