When one represents the extreme, it is hard to dance away from the extremes.

The rich money lady, Billionaire Meg Whitman, Republican candidate for Governor of California. Oh, what will money buy. She is on her way to spending the moon for the governor's chair. But, if Lady Billion Dollars manages to snatch it away, the price will be cheap, because the lady wants to be President. First gov, then pres. She is ready to pay the stars for the White House.

But wait. She doesn't have the California governorship in the bag. She ran in the GOP primary as a "red meat conservative," who promised to restore California to glory, after years of suffering under that Democratic liberal in Republican clothing, Arnold the actor Schwarzenegger, and she promised to keep California safe and away from that Democratic liberal in Democratic liberal clothing, Jerry Brown. She has more than enough money to put her message across. Actually, it is said that if she wasn't running for governor, she would be out making a loan to Greece.

But money by itself won't buy the governor's seat, she needs votes. She needs the "red meaters" to vote for her, and she needs, most of all, the middle of the roaders. The people who never cross the street, but walk straight on the long yellow line, eyes forward, often times looking backwards.

Yellow line? Well, they are afraid of what they may find on either side of the road. On the yellow line, there are a whole lot of voters. Ms. Whitman wants the governor's chair and she wants the yellow line voters. But as she, or as any candidate dances to the yellow line, the base supporters, who are lined up on their respective side of the road, don't like it, and they make their feelings known.

To win in California Ms Whitman has to ease on to that yellow line, waltz over, break dance over, but get there.

Ms. Whitman is catching hell from her "red meat" supporters. The Mercury News reports, that Ms. Whitman " went on the air last week with two red-meat-conservative talk show hosts, they mercilessly grilled her on what they characterized as inexcusable shifts on illegal immigration and the state's landmark global warming bill. The drubbing was so bad that many listeners of 'The John & Ken Show' pronounced that they'd never vote for such a namby-pamby candidate."