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Friday, November 21, 2008 12:00 AM

Is it OK to be liberal again, instead of progressive?

Come out of the closet, liberals. Stop using the fashionable euphemism "progressive" and relaunch the old, tarnished L-word.

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  • Saturday, November 22, 2008 09:50 AM

    “You might be a liberal, if...

    - if you don’t have any slaves.

    - if you ‘let’ your wife vote, then you might be a ‘liberal'

    - if you allow your daughters to learn to read… well, that’s a bit on the liberal side

    - if you haven't banished a Jew lately, you just may be a liberal

    - if you ever said ‘It’s a free country,’ well wasn’t that a ‘liberal’ thing to say

    - if you’ve never burned a heretic, you are a flaming ‘liberal.’

    - if you let your sister marry a Catholic boy she chose herself, both of you are ‘liberals.’

    - if that’s a gun rack in your pickup, you’re as ‘liberal’ as the 2nd Amendment

    - if you borrowed a book from a "free" library, you are a 'tax and spend' liberal

    - You might be a ‘liberal’ if you think Rush Limbaugh should be allowed to broadcast.”

    (Note: If you ARE Rush Limbaugh, you are a ‘liberal.’ You actually paid your Mexican housekeeper when she ran your drugs. And you’ve never set fire to a single Democrat.”)

    - if you wear shorts, you just might be a liberal

    - if you have ever driven on an Interstate with no tolls, what a liberal you are

    - if you used the GI Bill for school or a mortgage, you are a welfare liberal

    - if you believe in Jesus as your personal savior, you are a radical liberal

    - if "one man, one vote" seems about right to you, congratulations, you are a liberal thinker

    - if you think you have a ‘right’ to vote? Well, aren’t you the cutest ‘liberal’ thing.”

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