tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9440892.post116458494195805807..comments2023-10-21T06:47:36.819-07:00Comments on p3 - Persuasion, Perseverance, and Patience: That word you keep using--I do not think it means what you think it meansUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9440892.post-1164748756569712492006-11-28T13:19:00.000-08:002006-11-28T13:19:00.000-08:00Yeah. Center, schmenter, whatever. I discovered LO...Yeah. Center, schmenter, whatever. I discovered LONG ago that the whole scale gets pushed around. I thought I was toward the center at one time... uhm - 1980? Maybe...? Now I'm hanging completely off the left side (depending on whose scale you're looking at). But I haven't moved. I'm right where I was 20 something years ago. <BR/>I found a post comparing the cover of time magazine after 2006 Democratic blowout and after the 1994 Republican takeover. The 1994 cover had a graphic of an angry out-of-control elephant trampling a hapless donkey. The 2006 cover graphic was a red cirle and a blue circle overlapping - the small center elipse being purple. Of course this indicated that the voters were appealing for a move to "the center"...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9440892.post-1164589566379851712006-11-26T17:06:00.000-08:002006-11-26T17:06:00.000-08:00Since my political leanings have little to do with...Since my political leanings have little to do with that theoretical center, I don't have to be worried about being defined by them. The absolute inaccuracy of the Beltway definition is probably obvious to everybody except the Beltway.Chuck Butcherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13656874242638324636noreply@blogger.com