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the G-man said:
Its fun to watch the Democratic spin machine, personified here at the RKMBs by MEM, turn even Rudy Guiliani into some sort of "far right" boogeyman.

I think it says a lot about the radicalization of the current democratic party when a guy who is pro-abortion and pro-gay marriage, not to mention pro gun control, is suddenly "far right" simply because he is a republican.

It tends to put to lie that whole canard of the Democrats that they would embrace republicans who are "moderate." Simply put, no republican is "moderate" (that is, left wing) enough for the current angry desperate left.



Your embarrassingly poor front-paging skills aside, I am curious about this. I have long had three theories regarding moderate candidates within the two-party system:

1.Any moderate candidate will have to alter their stance on certain hotbutton issues to acquiesce to the core of their political party and its constituency, possibly to the point at which they really aren't even running on a moderate platform.

2.People affiliated with a specific party may say that they'd support a moderate from the opposing party, but, generally speaking, they really wouldn't.

3.Theory one may beget theory two.

MisterJLA is RACKing awesome.