Reply #15: Centrists? [View All]

[SavageWombat]

A centrist president will only get us more of what we got from Clinton - OK government, but no progress. Especially now - a centrist will find "compromises" with the radicals running the GOP, and wind up moving us ever so slightly right. Until we get a Dem Congress, or at least Repubs that vote their conscience instead of what the Party Officers tell them to, we need a president to oppose them.

A parable by Raymond Smullyan, famous logician:

Child 1: "I'm going to eat this pie."
Child 2: "No, we should share the pie."
Child 1: "No, I want to eat the whole pie."
Child 2: "We should share the pie, half for me and half for you."
Adult: "Kids, you need to compromise - give him three-quarters of the pie."

A moderate who compromises with an extremist loses out. Against this kind of opposition, we need a pres to stick to his guns.