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Anyone who's seen the picture of General Douglas MacArthur lording over the defeated Japanese on the deck of the USS Missouri at the close of World War II can appreciate the plight of Idaho's moderate Republicans. 
The moderates are the guys seated at the table, signing surrender terms. The terms may be generous in the short term. The long term, however, beckons the slow but certain strangulation of the pragmatic, centrist-oriented wing of Idaho's dominant political party. Already under siege from the ideological faction that gave you bills to nullify the U.S. Constitution and put a gun in every college student's hand, Idaho's moderate Republicans lost the war earlier this month. U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill said the party apparatchiks could close the state's GOP primary to all but card-carrying Republican voters/Marty Trillhaase, Lewiston Tribune. More here.
Question: Are there any moderate GOP legislators remaining in North Idaho?
D.F. Oliveria is a columnist and blogger for The Spokesman-Review. Huckleberries Online was judged the best 2008 Idaho newspaper blog by the Idaho Press Club. And the best 2007 news blog in the Pacific Northwest by the Society for Professional Journalist. Print Huckleberries is a past winner of the Herb Caen Memorial Column contest by the National Association of Newspaper Columnists. The Readership Institute of Northwestern University cited this blog as a good example of online community journalism.
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danofthecommunity on March 30 at 9:13 a.m.
I can think of a couple who deserve credit for being thoughtful and more moderate but I respect them too much to name them in print.
Wow, that says it all. We have to be afraid to even compliment the good ones these days for fear it will be the kiss of death.
Gary D Rhodes on March 30 at 9:19 a.m.
Moderates.
What is with trying to pigeon-hole people into meaningless groups.
danofthecommunity on March 30 at 9:25 a.m.
Actually for those of us who are moderates, regardless of party, it has a great deal of meaning.
DFO on March 30 at 9:58 a.m.
@ Rhodetrip … you’re obviously not from North Idaho … where to be considered anything but a staunch conservative or further right is to be dismissed as a librul at best …