Bush ran as a centrist, served as a centrist, and was unmercifully savages. Another centrist “win” will be the complete end of the Republican Party. No one seems to be able to define this mythical center pundits talk infinitely about. They fail to realize the center is between opposites. If you move your base to the Left, then you’ve just moved the center to the Left. You become a difference without much distinction and, as McCain proved, had no real reason to persuade people to vote for him so it became mostly a referendum on personality.
It would be suicide to move to the center. There is absolutely no activist base there other than the pundits and they sure as the world will not carry and inspire a base.
If the Republicans think moving to the center is the way to go and return to running a socialist country, why not just jump completely left and run as the Republican Socialist Democrat Party?
