When Facebook Becomes Blogging

 When Ruth Bader Ginsburg was first nominated to the Supreme Court, a lot of liberals cried foul. They thought she was a moderate through and through, and after an exhaustive and inconclusive survey of potential candidates that included everyone from Mario Cuomo to Barbara Jordan, she was only chosen because she was recommended to Clinton by Janet Reno as an uncontroversial choice, and Reno only recommended Ginsberg because of a recommendation from Orrin Hatch, who is now the longest serving Republican senator in history. Liberals howled that she would be uncommitted to women's issues, that she would be uncommitted to civil rights, that she was just another Clintonian moderate who would back down and concede to whatever watered down compromise Republicans would demand.

My only point is this - just as sometimes yesterday's liberals are today's conservatives, sometimes today's moderates are tomorrow's progressives. You write off the center at your peril, because one day, the center may be to the left of you.