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To: Steve Lokness who wrote (146138)	10/3/2010 3:26:12 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 540836

If I have your comments right you believe the dissatisfaction lies to the far right - while I believe it is much more centrist oriented. Not exactly. I grant you the dissatisfaction argument. I'm arguing about "movements", which means an organizational component, something that is a step beneath a political party. The Tea Party stuff is the only such, outside of the two traditional parties. There's no centrist "movement. And my argument, further, is that the political space for such a movement is already occupied by Obama and much of the Dem party. Because the Reps have, by and large, vacated the space.

To: Steve Lokness who wrote (146138)	10/3/2010 5:13:19 PM
From: Katelew	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 540836

I think Benen misunderstands the dynamics in the country right now. If you read him carefully, most of his columns contain some variation of the words 'I don't get it'. He presents what someone says or does, usually by cherry-picking quotes, and then dismisses the whole thing by saying some variation of 'crazy', 'stupid', 'looney' as well as 'I don't get it'. Now it may be that this pattern is just a rhetorical device...that's what I thought anyway. Now I'm thinking more it's that he really doesn't get it. Either he's not making the effort or he's letting other pundits inform his own opinion. As a result, it leaves him most of the time as just one more guy stuck in an echo chamber while the political landscape shifted under his feet.