The Center-Right Myth

The Center-Right Myth that's been kicking around recently, perfectly distilled at ThinkProgress HERE, is a fairly fascinating thing to observe, since here we have conservatives claiming that the country still leans to the center-right even after rather handily electing a man as president that voters had been told for months was a radical Socialist who was going to put Bill Ayers, Rev. Wright and OJ Simpson in his cabinet while making egg foo puppy. So you can see why the conservatives would think the country was still in their own image, cause nothing says "we're just like you!" like "we're just like you!!...if you were somebody else completely."

But I don't know what the right is so scared of - in 2008, are things like wanting to (to quote the TP joint) expand environmental protections, increase the minimum wage, recognize same-sex marriage, and end the Iraq war really that "radical" anymore? Right now these things are maybe progressive and left-leaning, but hardly "radical", no?

ALSO NONSENSE: the madate stuff in the article. A laugher.