And lo, it came about, that on Sun, 08 Jun 2003 21:11:53 GMT in rec.crafts.metalworking , Gunner was inspired to utter:
>By the standards of 1960, he was a Moderate Democrat.
>By the standards of 2003, he is a middle of the road Republican
What used to be "middle of the road" is now somewhere past the fog line.
As I said of liberal friend of mine: the parties we nominally are part of, have both lurched to the left.