Social moderates, slapping God in the face and thinking they can get away with it.
A moderate believes in bigger, but better and cheaper government.
The dangerous ones are the self-proclaimed moderates.
That’s just another way of saying “I’m always right.”
The moderate middle-roaders are IMHO, an unreliable, fickle electorate. They vote on emotions, not facts and are led around by the MSM spinmasters.
Seems like there must be a middle if there are sides.
Being of moderate political views and the “middle” from an electoral standpoint seem to be two different things to me.
The middle IMO are voters who fall in love with candidates and pay little or no attention to what they are saying.
Moderates tend to be people who have well formed (and often opposed) viewpoints. I would say Bush was a moderate. I’d say they also vote all over the place depending on what issues they are most passionate about but they do so for a reason.
Moderates? These are people who wait for the most convincing voice to tell them what to do.
"Moderates" -- those who inhabit the middle of the political spectrum -- happen to be a significant majority of voters. They are "moderates," in large part because they distrust extremes, partisans, and radicals -- and choose not to associate themselves with same.
The author apparently wishes to radicalize moderates -- to force them to choose between left and right. Apparently he only understands moderates well enough to build a strawman of them.
His big mistake is in thinking that "moderate" equates to "passive." In reality, the moderate mindset translates more into a willingness to only go so far -- and it's never as far as the partisans want them to go.
The partisan left understands moderates far better than the partisan right does. They know that the way to move moderates in their direction, is to do so patiently and incrementally.
Conservatives, otoh, have an unfortunate tendency to assume that an electoral move to the right equates to a willingness among moderates to accept large changes to basic systems, and as a result they try to ram things through all at once.
But moderates are never ready for big changes, and they're at least as suspicious of drastic change from the right, as they are from the left.
The difference is that the left knows that, and uses that discomfort to counterpunch conservative initiatives -- which explains why the left never seems to stay defeated, and usually, eventually, to come out ahead.
The author doesn't seem to understand that.
World’s shortest book - “Great Moderates in History.”