What is the center? Homosexual marriage, abortion on demand, scientism (politicized science) and big government?
That is not the center.
In America, we are different. Our country was founded on individual liberty, not collective security or coercion. That we've lost our way is evidence that we need to return to the Golden Mean - A Constitutional Republic.
Colin and friends need to come back to the center. We need to hold true to our founding principles. America should not look to the world, but to our Constitution and Bill of Rights as originally intended.
The rest of the world remained, in large part on the statist path. Liberty was an accident or afterthought. That is the history of the rest of the world.
For America, individual liberty was the founding principle.
Excellent post. Conservatism itself is the center, it is the middle of the road, it is moderate. Reagan used conservatism to move the center to him, not the other way around. God bless FReeper Common Tator and may he Rest in Peace, but he used to always advocate for the GOP to move to the center.