Reply #6: thats how i feel.

[jonnyblitz]

I get the impression they take a poll on each issue to determine what is the popular view then claim it as their own and anybody to the left or right of that view is "fringe' on either side. They are "normal" and everbody else is "extreme." They consider themselves far superior to the "idealists who require purity". Just my own fringe leftist unscientific opinion on what a centrist is.