You are 100% accurate on that statement....this crap about "Centrist" is poliitic-code for "RINO", and caving on principle.
The other politic-code word is "Moderate", meaning you vote with Democrats, and call yourself "Republican" (Olympia Snowe, Susan Collins, Pansey Graham, etc.).
It's one thing to negotiate terms of an idea, but it's a totally different animal to sway from CORE PRINCIPLES, AND CONTITUTIONAL PRINCIPLES. If it ain't in the Constitution, it ain't needed to be made into "Law" by politicians and Activist Judges.
Look around; see what "moderate" has done to this once-great Country.
“Look around; see what ‘moderate’ has done to this once-great Country.”
Exactly.