[annalex]

Here's a radical thought. "Buying a perception of centrism" is useless. We are better served without such perception. Bush should go as hard right as he can. When it is the left's turn, let them go as hard left as they can. Only this way can the electorate become informed and exercise its voting powers.

Under the banner of horsetrading and centrism we get a gradual leftwing drift, even under conservatively inclined presidents and congresses. That is because the issues do not gel in the people's minds and the damn media get to play in the mud.

[Dat Mon]

YOU SAID.."Under the banner of horsetrading and centrism we get a gradual leftwing drift, even under conservatively inclined presidents and congresses. That is because the issues do not gel in the people's minds and the damn media get to play in the mud."

BINGO...well said and reasoned.

Its all about education of the public. Thats why we have been pushing for our elected leaders, chiefly Bush...to fight hard for conservative / constitutional principles, and use the bully pulpit to educate the public.

Reagan "the great communicator" understood this principle, and applied it constantly. Thats what made him intimidating to the then democrat majority in Congress.

You cannot change a persons mindset without first educating them to your point of view.