You guys have got it all wrong.  The centre is always where the MSM pundit sits.  Some identify marginally to the left or right to give them an angle and a target to aim their prose at, and in order to give a sense of direction as to where they think the country should be going in the future.  So for Kristol, Bush wasn't a true conservative at all, and the country needs to move rightwards from its current centre.  In other words, the American people really want what Kristol wants - hence they are centre right - but they have been temporarily bamboozled by that guy, who's turning out to be a slicker salesman than they ever imagined. Damn those puppies.

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