Your query rests in the foundational principles on which those various points rest.
For the most part, your state is far too vague to know what you believe.
For instance, you 'believe in big government, but not huge'... No way to what you mean by that. What are the core principles which determine the justification for big government, but negate any sound moral justification for a huge government.
Same for your feelings on 'moderate regulations'... and so on.
My take on the statement is that it's a grope through which the author hopes to establish themselves confortably in the 'middle'. On the erroneous premise that the 'middle' is where reason prevails; that the political center is the only valid point on the linear spectrum, because it's 'felt'' that the Middle, offer's a 'third option' as a result of being isolated from the two would-be oppossing poles.
Of course, the poles are not just political ideas... with one being as good as the next. The Political Poles rests in ideology; which rests in valid, natural principle; which the ideological right seeks to recognize and respect; and the ideological wrong, which seeks to obscure and reject those principles.
So, at the end of the day, the vaunted Centrist is one who advocates for a compromise between 'right and wrong'.
Now I am one of those people who tend to recognize that policy which compromises with wrong, is wrong...