"to souter"

[Jonathan Lighter]

I think "centrist" implies "not belonging to a wing."

I may have observed some months ago that back in my day, you young whelps, "left-wing" and "right-wing" virtually always implied extremism. "Left-wingers" were commie sympathizers or worse who wanted Uncle Ho for President. "Right-wingers" wanted to blow up most other countries so that the American commies like Eisenhower who were already running our Government would have no place to run to once the counterrevolution started.

Both of these terms seem to have ameliorated somewhat in the past ten or twenty years.

Or am I being laughably naive ?

JL

"Mullins, Bill" <Bill.Mullins at US.ARMY.MIL> wrote:
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>http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2005/supreme.court/interactive/scenarios/con=
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>The country soon found
>out, as Souter has carved a mostly moderate-liberal position. That
>centrist stance has since outraged conservatives, and they have vowed
>never to be caught off guard with the next nominee.=20

Odd that CNN equates "moderate-liberal" with "centrist".

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