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Funny... i think someone ascribed that quote to Margaret Thatcher earlier in the thread... But I digress.

I think it's a legitimate question. And I think centrists are legitimate people who vote and voted in force in the midterms. So do you deal with them or not?

"So do you deal with them or not?"

Depends. I am somewhere between a 'small L' libertarian (as separate from the whacked out political party) and a 'paleo-conservative or Bob Taft Republican (meaning that I would have had grave qualms about getting into WW2, loyalty to the Brits probably overcoming loathing of foreign involvement, at least in Europe).
I'm a 'second Amendment absolutist' which is to say that unless someone is a felon I think they should be able to have pretty much anything they can carry *AND* have no intention of compromising with ANY candidate who is not pretty much in line with that particular point. The Pro Life folks are pretty much the same way.
So... if the 'centrists' are smart enough to avoid p!ssing off voters for whom an issue really is worth fighting to the death for they can get their way sometimes.
Either ideological extreme ignores the centrists at their peril. Rush pointed out that minimum wage provisions won everywhere they were on the ballot AND those same places all had a bigger than average Democratic turn out; apparently it's an issue that the ideological purists on the right keep getting their butts kicked on, just like the 'left' goes against the rights of gun owners at its extreme peril.