- Lou Dobbs on why the middle class needs to fight the politics of polarization.
- James Baker (R) and Lee Hamilton (D) chair a bi-partisan panel looking for alternatives to resolving the war in Iraq.
- John Danforth (R) on saving the Republican Party from right wing conservatives.
- Sam Harris (D) on saving the Democratic Party from head-in-the-sand liberals.
I'm afraid both major parties have already nominated candidates from the fringes. It may be too late to inject reason into the mid-term elections, but I'm hoping for a vast centrist conspiracy to take hold in 2008.
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While chatting with a conservative friend recently I said that I had decided to become Middle-tarian, that both ends of the spectrum are nuts. His response "Moderate == no opinion" ;-)
I'm with you Dave.
Alas, I fear it is a pipe dream.
If a centrist movement is really to take hold, I believe the disenchanted (those who don't even bother to vote) need to be brought back in to the fold.
Yes. The major parties have decided they can win elections by "energizing their base" (translation: scaring people into voting against the other guy).
I guess I'm hoping for a mid-term election that is a miserable failure for both parties. Then maybe they'll start paying attention to the center. But what scenario would both parties judge to be a failure? If 5% of the electorate voted, the party with the most seats in Congress would still declare victory. Very sad.
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