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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsOne of the best put downs ever in politics.
Axelrod on Romney:
...Taking two positions on every issue, one more on the left and one more on the far right doesn't make you a centrist, it makes you a charlatan.
http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2012/01/axelrod_taunts_romneys_iowa_wi.html
Warpy
(111,254 posts)However, the man really has no core principles, at all, and it's showing rather badly. The worst thing you can possibly be to a religious absolutist is inconsistent. They don't care if you're dead wrong about everything just as long as you cling to those positions until you are dead and buried.
Motown_Johnny
(22,308 posts)Warpy
(111,254 posts)never mind he's biting the hand that's feeding him.
Romney is not only riding his father's considerable coattails, he's been the governor of a major state and has done some things there he could take credit for rather than run from. Add to that he's the party heir apparent.
So I think you're wrong about that. As long as he became an born again antichoicer, the non lunatic right would have embraced him for all the reasons I cited.
Motown_Johnny
(22,308 posts)he can't survive a Republican primary process running on that
Jester Messiah
(4,711 posts)He actually pays attention to things like science and evidence, and dares to think that perhaps party dogma isn't infallible when those things contradict it. No way can they vote for somebody like that!
Warpy
(111,254 posts)which means there is likely a considerable whispering campaign against him.
Major Hogwash
(17,656 posts)He's a freaking genius.
I miss Obama Girl, too.
jaxx
(9,236 posts)You can count on Axelrod.
AnotherMcIntosh
(11,064 posts)A "centrist" is what?
Someone who doesn't have real power because he doesn't have enough votes?
Someone who believes that if he doesn't press hard on upholding traditional Democratic values that he will get votes from Republicans?
Whatever Azelrod's concept of what constitutes a "centrist," we know that it does not mean being a liberal or a progressive. Maybe it is sufficient from his point of view if a person has a (D) after their name.
JoePhilly
(27,787 posts)MisterP
(23,730 posts)coalition_unwilling
(14,180 posts)"Iowa doesn't pick presidents; Iowa picks corn"
sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)front runner after all.
Centrists are Charlatans btw.
JoePhilly
(27,787 posts)Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)Centrist also takes two positions, makes them one, and pushes them with rhetorical ferocity. The centrist is 'for' the crook and also 'for' the guy the crook stole from. For the hate and the hated, for the bigot and for the target of that bigotry. In short the centrist stands for the centrist, just as the charlatan stands for the charlatan.
Ikonoklast
(23,973 posts)Your understanding that a person taking a centrist political position means that they are for all sides of an issue is sophmoric.