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Boy if you think Obama,

Solomon Kleinsmith — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 18:10:18 +0000

In reply to Centrism: The Truth Rundown

Boy if you think Obama, McCain and Huffington are centrists... you really don't understand what a centrist is, or your definition of centrist is so loose it covers 70% of the country.

Solomon Kleinsmith

Rise of the Center

The pundit class believes

Michael Wolraich — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 13:51:51 +0000

In reply to excommunicating

The pundit class believes that abandoning the middle means election losses, but that's not necessarily the case.

I've used "excommunication"

Michael Wolraich — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 13:49:59 +0000

In reply to I don't think Jeffords should

I've used "excommunication" loosely. Both Jeffords and Specter left the GOP "voluntarily." Jeffords left because he longer felt welcome. Specter left because he knew he would lose in the next primary.

I don't think Jeffords should

kgb999 — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 03:56:40 +0000

In reply to Republicans are much more

I don't think Jeffords should count. And technically ... didn't Democrats send Arlen packing?

excommunicating

jollyroger — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 00:54:37 +0000

In reply to Republicans are much more

excommunicating centrists

Yet Repugnants are still oddly beloved on the Village Green, while Democratic party discipline is the rule that dare not speak its name ...I feel so dirty all of a sudden...

Republicans are much more

Michael Wolraich — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 00:40:00 +0000

In reply to Where in the Hell are the

Republicans are much more enlightened about the false religion of centrism. They've been excommunicating centrists for over thirty years. Here's a short list:

Clifford Case (1978)
Edward Brooke (1978)
John Anderson (1980)
Jacob Javitz (1980)
Charles Mathias (1986)
Jim Jeffords (2001)
Lincoln Chafee (2006)
Chris Shays (2008)
Dede Scozzafava (2009)
Arlen Specter (2009)
Mike Castle (2010)
Charlie Crist (2010)
Bob Inglis (2010)
Olympia Snowe & Susan Collins (pending)

I'm missing a bunch, but I think you get the idea.

I'm sure I would've missed

jollyroger — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 23:30:24 +0000

In reply to If I hadn't recently read the

I'm sure I would've missed half of your jokes

Like Lenny Bruce, Wolfie is sometimes "too hip for the room". Also, like Lenny, "he could give a fuck"

Oh, I almost forgot. There

jollyroger — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 23:28:03 +0000

In reply to Where in the Hell are the

Oh, I almost forgot. There is the most painful footage of all: Noam Chomsky alluding to Nixon as "the last Liberal president". Actually, that's pretty painful to me, too...

Where in the Hell are the

jollyroger — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 23:26:39 +0000

In reply to Centrism: The Truth Rundown

Where in the Hell are the Centrist Republicans, anyway?

They are solitarily confined....in The (memory) Hole, where they must endure 23 1-2 hours a day of videos (thinik Clockwork Orange) showing Nixon being pelted by refuse in Venezuela and Happy Rockefeller discussing Nelson's attributes in a very disparaging fashion...

If I hadn't recently read the

Verified Atheist — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 18:40:08 +0000

In reply to Centrism: The Truth Rundown

If I hadn't recently read the Scientology article Donal recently linked to, I'm sure I would've missed half of your jokes. Luckily, I did, so I thoroughly enjoyed this.