Reply #44: "centrist" = way to the right, in these days of transition from W.

[iconicgnom]

After 8 years of very extremist Republican policy, a "centrist" route which looks to balance the aims of those extremists with a new admin is identical mainstream (center right) Republicanism. I think most Dems voted for a Dem and expected Dem leadership, not a continuation of Republican rule.

For most people that's what the words "change" and "hope" meant, leading up to the GE, and it certainly IS disappointing that "change" and "hope" were immediately dropped in favor of appeasing the extreme right. As if the Dems were still in the minority position.