That is the way it looks to you but to me its starting off with the current realities and working from there. We cannot move politicians to the right any farther than 51% of their voters. Our opponents know this and do so by controlling the media message as well as the school messages. As long as your posistion on an issue is with less than 50% of the voters its a dead posistion.
So, my job is twofold. It is to vote for the candidate that is closest to my way of thinking and to make moe people think like me.
I'm the problem. I belong somewhere where the Hartford Courant would go out of business, and Simmons would not get elected because he is too liberal. One of my favorite Free Republic threads of all time was last year's Need to be with my own kind, where I asked Freepers where the best place to live was.