SBB's PMs IV
“In just a few months of divisive campaigning and ill-considered strategy, President Bush and Karl Rove managed to dismantle the Republican party’s governing majority by appealing to only the most conservative elements of its base. The returns reveal that the neo-conservatives/radical agenda drove off voting blocks that turned to the Democrats,” said John Podesta, president of the Center for American Progress.
Can both parties just get back to the Center, and play nice now? Or am I going to have to come up there again with my belt off?*
*Sorry, just channeling my dad.
posted by Clemens @ 8:25 PM
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The myth of Karl Rove's genius was something I always felt to be overrated.
I think that primarily came from Liberal elitists who looked at George Bush with his malapropisms and they-hate-our-freedom level of political discourse next to an orator in John Kerry and thought "Anyone capable of making people vote for someone as stupid as Bush must be a genius"
The real answer was a lot easier: What lost Kerry the election was that he came across as an empty suit and had a condescending speaking style. Had the Dems nominated someone else (okay not Dean, Sharpton, Kucinch, etc), they would have taken the White House in 2004.
The center is a slightly ambiguous term. The country may be in the center but the country is not voting. 40% of the eligible voters, votes. They are not centrists. If you want politicians to reflect the will and desires of the people, the people must pay attention and get politically active.
Once that happens, I thin you will find most people are not centrists or moderates. Most people have a political philosophy, even if they don't know it, or can't describe it because it doesn't conveniently fall on the left right spectrum.
--Joey
So where is the centre?
I like to think I'm pretty close to it, but that's probably an illusion....
"I've suffered every psychiatric illness known to man. Well, except delusions of grandeur. Which is why GOD has chosen ME to do HIS WORK ON THIS EARTH!!"
< Pundit's Fallacy> I think the center is one-two notches up and one notch right, from dead center on the Nolan chart< / Pundit's Fallacy >
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Worlds-Smallest-Political-Quiz.PNG
Of course, that center is a bit of a moving target.
--Joey
I think it is simply a concept, that the definition of a 'point' in geometry.
Glad Elliot has found the centre now that he is a spokesperson for a VERY IMPORTANT entity.
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