Wittman Is Not Center Left

Mark Leon Goldberg inexplicably described Marshall Wittman as "center-left"  in the course of a TAPPED post noting with surprise that Wittman is repeating Republican apparatchik talking points on Cindy Sheehan.  I'm not surprised that Wittman uses Republican talking points.  I'm surprised Goldberg is surprised, though.

For the umpteenth time, Wittman is not liberal, he's not a Democrat, and he's not on anyone's side but his.  Wittman is a movement conservative who became disillusioned with the Bush Republicans, even though he helped build the Republican Extremist movement as a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, the Heritage Foundation's director of congressional relations both for the U.S. House and Senate, and the Christian Coalition's director of legislative affairs.  I have yet to hear or read one word of regret for or repudiation of his activities in that regard.

If the Republican Party can shake itself of just the most extreme and most corrupt of the corrupt extremists running the Republican Party, you can bet that Wittman will be back there in a heartbeat (if the Republicans are willing to trust him again).  If the Republicans aren't willing to trust him again, he'll keep trying to drive the Democrats Republicanward until he's comfortable.  And Wittman's comfort zone, the end destination of that Republicanward drive, is not freaking center-left.