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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (918787)	2/2/2016 6:18:25 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574483

I think you just proved my point. How so? Her record has been one of a moderate Democrat. Granted, on this run she has shifted position, but those shifts have been few and very, very obfuscated. Some are just a change in phraseology. Despite that, there is just no way she can be described as a socialist. Or even a liberal for the most part. I remember when Newt Gingrich joined the church of climate change. Lots of Republicans did. Until the orthodoxy changed. He has since flipped. Mitt Romney was the architect of RomneyCare, as most Democrats gleefully pointed out in 2012. Actually, it was the Heritage Foundation. He then repudiated it in 2012. Paul Ryan is currently being criticized by the right for being a so-called "moderate" that won't stand up to Obama. Ryan is not now nor has he ever been a moderate. Nor has he ever been a serious policy wonk, despite what some people say. John McCain used to be the centrist who bridged the two sides together. That was until 2008, when the media had a field day painting him as a warmongering neocon. Uh, McCain became a warmongering neocon in 2008. He expressed a desire to re-invade Iraq and was itching to invade Iran. He never flipped back. Even Rudy Giuliani, friend of the NYPD back when they weren't cool, was supposedly a social moderate. Giuliana, is about the only one you have mentioned that has a shot at the label of a moderate. Congrats! You found... One. I will grant you that there seems to be no future for "moderates" in the modern Republican party. But that isn't the totality of American politics, but an aberration. I suppose you can pretend that "both parties do it", but that doesn't make it true. Or even close to the truth.