I had missed this oped by David Boren, Christine Todd Wittman and William Cohen a few weeks back.  What does AE want,at least according to these authors?  to push the two main presidential candidates (more) to the center:

The American people should challenge the two parties and their presidential candidates to make three ironclad commitments:

First, candidates of both parties should endorse the main principles contained in the Simpson-Bowles bipartisan budget proposal. We all understand it takes both spending cuts and revenue increases to balance the budget. That way, all Americans would participate in the sacrifice and it would be fair.

Second, candidates of both parties should create a national unity government by including leaders from both parties in the Cabinet. During World War II, Winston Churchill created a “war Cabinet,” representing all parties, to unify Britain in a time of great crisis. Today America desperately needs the same kind of unity government.

Third, candidates should commit to support a statutory approach or, if required, a constitutional amendment which permits a limit on campaign spending and allows only individual citizens eligible to vote in each election to contribute. The buying and selling of elections and public office must be stopped!