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...dare to take him on. In his speech, he ignored them completely, choosing instead to tangle with Texas Gov. George W. Bush, upon whom Republican hopes for victory in 2000 have quickly come to rest. Without mentioning him by name, Gore derided Bush as a cheap convert to centrist politics, dismissing Bush's brand of "compassionate conservatism" as empty sloganeering. "Compassion is more than a pretty word," Gore monotoned. "It is the highest of all disciplines...
...opposing former Senator Bob Dole, Clinton was able to rest on his superior political skills and take centrist stances, Sandel said...
...Bush, education has been a way to establish centrist credentials--this tax-cutting, small-government conservative likes to boast that he has increased state education spending by $4.7 billion, or 31% (and he exaggerates the figure, a very unconservative thing to do). It's all part of navigating a tricky course down the right side of the political center. In 1997, when he pushed through new curriculum standards, he angered both the right and the left: first rejecting the initial effort as being too full of "mushy" liberal pedagogy, then rejecting the arguments of the religious right that the revised...
Although he calls himself a progressive Democrat, many of his positions are centrist...
Even with the lack of coverage, the candidateshope the centrist tendencies of Massachusetts'Democratic and Republican frontrunners will helptheir races...