Tacking to the center on pretty much every major issue of importance is the story of the Obama Presidency. Middle East, Al Qaeda, going easy on Wall Street, environmental issues, health care, tax cut after tax cut, the Drug War. All either utilized conservative ideas or were done in a manner to beg for conservative support.
Repealing DADT was move purely aimed at liberals with no compromising though, I'll give you that. The Auto bailouts as well.
For some reason, the American media has an obsession with a mythological 3rd Party of the center without ever looking at the issues. Recently their obsession is over Huntsman or Bloomberg, but Huntsman is more of a conservative then Romney. Bloomberg comes closest, but he's tied 100% down to Wall Street.
Maybe the OP deals with this stuff in a realistic way in his work. But maybe he doesn't.