So now, the lawmakers and spinners and Lieberman friends are wondering whether this deeply religious Connecticut centrist, who has attacked the values of gangsta rap and trash TV, has actually changed the character of the Monica Lewinsky debate.
Luigi De Magistris, a member of the European Parliament from the centrist Italy of Values party, expressed "satisfaction" that "the prime minister has today returned to the fold with the rest of us mere mortals, subject to the respect for justice that is at the foundation of our republic," the newspaper Corriere della Sera reported.
Antonio Di Pietro, founder and head of the centrist Italy of Values party, says that the outcome of the elections was also a verdict against the government.Some members of the People of Freedom party blame their electoral disaster on their support for the Monti government.
"They like centrist, middle-of-the-road Democrats or Republicans.
Chait makes a strong point, but the value of burnishing centrist credentials should not be discounted.
Even as she turned the Anti-Violence Project toward a more centrist approach, Ms. Quinn occasionally acknowledged the value of theatricality.
Over the weekend, the main opposition group, the Democratic Party, split with an allied centrist party, Italy of Values, further splintering the ever-squabbling left and center.
Obama preached a centrist, conservative message of family values, tax fairness and military preparedness and an emphasis of toughness on national security and the war on terrorism.
Jim Wallis ("The Message Thing," Op-Ed, Aug. 4) articulates a strongly centrist vision of the Democratic Party, in which family values, religious ideals and homeland security define policy at every turn.
Far from an outright victory for Macron's moderate centrist brand of business-friendly, internationally minded, socially liberal values, it showed a country more fractured than ever.
