Only in Washington can the pursuit of a conservative agenda, with centrist policies, be depicted as liberal reform.
I'm really curious about the memory of Nixon for people who grew up under Clinton. What do people remember of him? In his day, the definition of a conservative right-wing president is more like a centrist in our own time. He's also one of our funnier presidents - just a really good character to write about.
I consider my voice to be a centrist moderate voice among the nine Democratic candidates.
I'm definitely a centrist and feel like both parties can be absurd.
Obama behaves like a centrist who leans tentatively left on certain social programs but boldly right on military force and civil liberties.
Hillary Clinton is a centrist Democrat who is more hawkish than President Obama and far more principled and knowledgeable about foreign affairs than Trump, who is too unstable and erratic to be entrusted with the nuclear triad he has never heard of.
The most characteristic aspects of the Clintons, a political couple who might otherwise largely see themselves as practical-minded centrist consensus builders, is, of course, how much personal hatred they inspire.
Eventually, Nixon ran a very centrist presidency, not a Goldwater conservative presidency.