[Old_Mil]

Most people aren’t that extreme.

The multitude of your errors begin with conceptualizing conservatism with extremism. If we have a committed conservative like Ronald Reagan speaking out for the cause, nobody sees it as extremism.

On the other hand, if we have people like Rudy, Romney, McCain,and the Bushes who are ashamed of conservatism and feel the need to apologize for it by calling it "compassionate" conservatism (with the erroneous assumption that Reagan's brand wasn't)...we go nowhere.

[HitmanLV]

No errors. Most people aren’t all that liberal nor conservative. If the folks at FR crafted a platform, for example, I doubt it would appeal to more people than if the folks at DU crafted a platform.

Pretending that the nation is more conservative (or more liberal) than it really is strikes me as a primary error political addicts, one issue fetishists, and related goofballs make.