Senator Olympia Snowe (the Republican moderate from Maine), she's not.
"I think the timing is terrible," said Rep. Nancy L. Johnson, a Republican moderate from Connecticut.
Steve LaTourette, a moderate from Ohio who was retiring, characterized them as "extremists".
He took over last year, after its former chairman, Senator John H. Chafee, a Republican moderate from Rhode Island, died.
One possible candidate, advisers say, could be Senator Olympia J. Snowe, a Republican moderate from Maine who is retiring.
Growth has begun to moderate from its torrid pace of about 10 percent annual growth but inflation has become worse.
But prices are beginning to moderate from those heady days when dealers scrambled just to find used cars to sell.
It's an understandable desire for something moderate from a man who spends so much of his life battling extremes.
His supporters argued that as a moderate from the centre ground of the Socialist party, he was the only one who could beat Sarkozy.
President Clinton flew into Philadelphia on Monday to campaign for the Democratic challenger, Representative Ron Klink, a moderate from suburban Pittsburgh.
But the Democratic nominee, Representative Ron Klink, a 48-year-old moderate from the Pittsburgh area, won a very costly victory.
