re: "NYT: Lamont Builds Insurgent Win On Support of Wild-Eyed, Kos-Krazed... Moderates"

Ace of Ace of Spades HQ talks about political "moderates" in the context of the recent senatorial Democratic primary in Connecticut.

Money quote(s):

" "The real center." I think I know where the "real center" of this country is.

I think you all do too.

I think you think the "real center" of this country, the ideological fulcrum upon which our politics is balanced like a see-saw, is a bit to the left of you, because you're almost all conviction conservatives or partisan Republicans to one extent or another. You know you're a little to the right of center. Ergo, the center is a bit to the left of you.

The New York Times Editorial Board thinks it knows where the "real center" of the country is.

They don't imagine that the "real center" is to the right of themselves.

They think the "real center" is located precisely in the middle of the New York Times Editorial Board.

For such smart people, they can be rather... I don't want to say "dumb," so I'll say "intellectually incurious." "