On Fri, 26 Mar 2010, Doug Henwood wrote:
>> So big money on the Repug side loves extremists and hates moderates,
>> and big money on the Dem side hates extremists and loves moderates?
>
> Makes sense, actually. Money tends right, so it makes sense that the
> moneyed interests in the D would prefer centrists and those in the R
> would prefer rightists. They all hate the left.
That does make sense when you put that way. It also seems to give a structural reason why the parties seem to constrast so clearly along this line -- why one party's discourse and strategy is so consistently dominated its maximalists, and the other by its compromisers.
Michael