I can't help but wholeheartedly agree with you, Jim. Except, isn't the Constitution the center of our political spectrum?
Picky, picky, picky . . . I know. :-) But, therein seems to be a problem we are having. The words Right, Left, Conservative and Liberal mean different things to different people around the country. Consequently, it is not always that easy to accurately define exactly where most of the folks in the Republican Liberty Caucus fit in.
So, I prefer to say we are the center of the political spectrum -- where the Constitution is -- defending where the original intent of the Funding Fathers intended our central government to be. From there, we have both the Right and the Left. Both are groups who deviate from the Constitution, just usually in different ways.
This sounds almost like a silly little argument, but there's a method to my foolishness. As we went around talking with people about the RLC, I soon noticed that there were not really good words with which to describe our primary position. That's because the socialist propagandists have corrupted words like liberal and conservative to such an extent that they actually have reverse meanings in this country today.
So, it came down to just asking people to read the name of the group. Our middle name is "Liberty". That's the short description of what we support. The longer version takes a little longer to explain.
But, shortening the explanation for the moment, most RLC members are strong Constitutionalists and believe government should be operated as intended by the authors of our Constitution. Therefore, we are neither on the right or the left, neither liberals or conservatives. We do not support politicians who deviate from the Constitution in either direction. Therefore, we must be political centrists. Another problem is that the socialist propagandists have also corrupted the political term "centrist" somewhat. Yet, they still use it favorably once in a while. So, we can take it out and shine it up enough for our own use. It will confuse the liberals for some time, but that's fine with me.
In fact, when we define the term by stating that the Constitution is our political center and the political camps on the right and left are deviants from the Constitution, a great number of disenfranchised Americans start taking notice. That's because it's a simple truth that is very easy to understand. It's the socialist propagandists among us who want to make everything so complicated. That's because, by keeping all these political terms indefinite, they know it makes it much more difficult for us to define and talk about them.
Not on this end, though. I support and defend the Constitution as written and originally explained in The Federalist Papers and in other writings of the Founding Fathers. I shall not deviate to the right or the left. Which means, I am a centrist. I am not a political moderate. That's different. I am a centrist.
Silly, eh? But, doesn?t that more correctly define where many of us are really coming from?