[NormsRevenge]

Is what we are experiencing here of late at a conservative forum a form of 'shock therapy' or a variation thereof performed by those who prefer to operate from in the middle of the road?

Theoretically, the best way to destroy your opposition is to turn it on itself.

[EternalVigilance]

"I'm very proud that the Republican Party has three candidates that some conservatives feel like they are not conservative enough, because that feels like they have a good chance of winning the overall election," said Schwarzenegger, a moderate Republican himself. "The people in America are in the center, they're not extremists."

Arnold's such a girlie-man. To him, Mao was a "centrist," and a "moderate reformer."

[GSlob]

I meant nationwide scale [the electorate], and not the confines of FR. FR is not the electorate, but rather a small and rather unrepresentative slice of it. The same could be said of the swift boat veterans - but they shock therapied potential kerryacs on sufficiently massive scale, and that's what counted for their effectiveness. And even then, kerry lost by mere 4 million votes, and it all boiled down to a single state, thus the effectiveness of swift boat veterans was rather limited.