Over at Centerfield, they are developing a plan for a grassroots movement of centrists.
Centrist Manifesto
I continue to be amazed at how so many purportedly well-informed political activists can be so oblivious. Here's my comment on their project:
In some ways, this project reminds me of Europeans in the 1970s who saw a political and moral equivalency between the United States and the Soviet Union.
How can purported centrists find an equivalence betweeen a Republican Party dominated by fiscally irresponsible and intellectually bankrupt supply siders on fiscal issues, neoconservative advocates of preventive war on national security, and the religious right on social issues and a Democratic Party with a partisan, but historically centrist Governor as Chair? In their principles, Dean, Gore, Krugman and E.J. Dionne (for example) are all historic centrists, moderate and pragmatic liberals, whose strong opposition to this Administration is based on consistently applying their beliefs.
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