"I'm always amused when people say, 'Gee, you've moved from the far, far right to the middle,' " Mr. Mourdock said.
A year or so ago, on his weekly show on HBO, Bill Maher remarked that it is impossible to meet the GOP in the middle these days because they are "so far to the extreme right" the middle is somewhere east of Mongolia.
"The leadership responded to the concerns of those who are far to the right of the middle," said Scott.
The Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) spawned a tropical disturbance with a low-level circulation far to the southeast of Hawaii in the middle of August 2006.
Or, alternately, whether he will use the financial crisis to rationalize a move to what pundits call "the middle" (if there is one thing this election has proved, it is that the real middle is far to the left of its previously advertised address).
In particular, they worry that the introduction of anti-abortion groups into the fight could force Mr. Bush to move too far to the right and risk alienating middle-of-the-road and independent voters, who are likely to be decisive in the fall.
He finds in the shtetls, despite tribulation, a cosmic spirit far superior to the middle-class accommodation of western Jews.
