In the recent jurisdiction of its higher courts, one can register an interesting equilibrium between multicultural and more centrist, civic commitments, and one could not even say where one ends and the other begins.
There was always something a little disingenuous about Stewart's insistence that he is a centrist, free of ideological commitment to anything except truth and sanity.
The 1988 campaign was, in many ways, the crucible that helped create Bill Clinton's centrist philosophy and his fierce commitment to attack and counterattack, which drove the politics of the 1990s.
Schmidt worked 18 hours a day and undertook arduous foreign tours, but came under constant attack from the SPD left for his centrist stance and his unshakeable commitment to Nato, and its nuclear weapons on West German soil.
In this respect, Palmer's objective politics tap into his personal history – his father's friendship with, and role as informal advisor to, Catholic centrist politician Joe Lyons, and his mother's commitment to, and communication of, a serious Catholicism, with its notion of service in the world.
The Republican National Committee reacted not by lobbing criticism, but by focusing on Kaine's centrist record and accusing Clinton of falling back on commitments to progressives.
Mr. Bush's own commitment to bipartisanship could be tested by the offering of centrist approaches on energy that encourage some new production in exchange for the environmental safeguards the Democrats want.
While Mr. Daley and Mr. Sperling are perceived as centrists and could leave liberals further concerned about the administration's commitment to its views, the real evidence of where the president is heading will not come until the State of the Union address later this month and the unveiling of the president's budget in February.
Chomsky went on to say that Obama was "kind of a mainstream centrist with some concerns for liberal ideas and conceptions, but not much in the way of principal or commitment".
A centrist speech reasserted NHS values, offered a reassuring (if decidedly vague) undertaking not to privatise, and restated a campaign commitment to find the £8bn that the English NHS is officially deemed to require.
