All three Democratic presidential losses in the Eighties were caused by centrism.

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94. Centrism is what causes these candidates to appear boring and dull.

That's why Obama gave speeches (and still does to some extent) that are filled with liberal ideals and inspirational liberal desires and then ends up pretty much doing what a middle of the road RepubliCON would do. Liberal ideals are awe inspiring. Middle of the road ideals are dull, boring and uninspiring. Real conservative ideals tend to be pretty boring too because they mostly want things to stay the same. But liberal and progressive rhetoric can be beautiful.

All that soaring rhetoric about hope and change and then when Obama got into office we got middle of the road RepubliCONism. Because real centrists would say things like, "We can do it very, very slowly and if anyone disagrees we will immediately back off and change it to suit every little nit and pick." Centrism has to include things like, "We will work tirelessly to get conservative approved agenda as well as a few things on our agenda passed." "We will fire people if any RepubliCON objects to them before all the facts are in, even if their efforts insured I was elected. We will pass only half of what we want at any given time because we have to include half of what the other guy wants even if what he wants is the opposite of what we want."

Centrism is dull, boring and uninspiring.

But I don't think Carter spoke like a centrist. His words were filled with liberal passion and ideals. I think what prevented Carter from getting reelected had nothing to do with how good of a president he was, or how centrist he was. It had more to do with the traitor Ronnie Raygun making deals with terrorist and ensuring the hostages were NOT released until he was sworn in. In fact the minute he was sworn in the terrorist released the hostages as agreed upon. So it was the Iranian terrorist who really got Ronnie Raygun in as president. He didn't even need the Supreme Court to force it down the people's throats and make it look legal.