Ben Nelson is no centrist! He's a radical rightwinger!

[ananda]

MSM is just eating up the fact that Nelson said he supports Alito. My local rag's article was titled: Alito impresses centrist Democratic senator ----

Screeemmmm! Argghhhh!

Nelson is so far right that he's almost off the chart.

Give me a big fuckin break!

That guy's gotta go! He might as well be Republican.

Sue

[HillDem]

1. I see

you're a big John Thune fan

[wtmusic]

2. So was Ozzie

If this isn't a Republican, I don't know what is:

[last_texas_dem]

3. Yeah, the media eats that stuff up

Remember how Zell Miller became a media darling (despite being a lunatic) after he had drifted further and further to the right. I think they at least called him a "conservative" Dem and not a "centrist."

I do see the value in Nelson holding a Democratic seat in a deep red state, for the purposes of our party ever building a Senate majority. What I wonder is if he really has to govern that far to the right to keep that seat in Nebraska- is he honestly voting his conscience or being overly cautious? I know it's a Republican state, but there are other Senators from "red" states who don't vote with the right with that regularity- look at Johnson in SD or Conrad and Dorgan in ND.

(I'd like to think the state that once gave us William Jennings Bryan would still have something of a progressive movement, but then I think about my own state and doubt guys like LBJ or Ralph Yarbrough could ever win statewide in TX these days.)