Letters to the Editor
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Don't believe the hype
Let's stop buying into the Republican talking point that being "Liberal" is a bad thing.
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He's been in the Senate, what, a little over two years?
For all we know, he could be as "liberal" as Hillary Clinton.
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My Ultimate Hope...
is that the final demise of the Bush Administration will also mean the final demise of the whole neocon "philosophy." Then, perhaps, we'd stop hearing the word "liberal" spoken like a swear word.
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Repeat After Me: Liberal Is Best
Amen, Miz Binkley, and shame on you, Tim and Salon.
This is the trap Democrats have been falling into since 1968.
Stop accepting the false premise! (i.e., being a liberal is bad, therefore I am not one, even though more than 3/4 of Americans support liberal positions on social security, medicare, health care, education, infrastructure investment, drug treatment, abortion, crime, mideast diplomacy, Iraq - you name it.)
Stand Up, goddammit, and say what you believe! Say the wingnuts and freakzoids and bush-fellaters and rove-woshippers and cheney sub-demons can call it liberal or green cheese or dog poop - it's still the policy Americans want because it's the best policy.
I swear, any Democrat who doesn't answer "Damn Right and Proud Of It!" to the question, are you a liberal? is a traitor to this nation and will never, ever, get my vote.
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What makes Kucinich a liberal?
Just because he wants to legalize [censored]?
What is so liberal about wanting to legalize [censored]? Many conservatives want that too. Former Reagan officials, even.
What you should do in Salon is print an article on the science behind [censored] so that people can see that the laws the prohibit [censored] are really based on lies.
But you can't do that, because the topic of [censored] is [censored] at Salon.
So maybe the Democrats should back Ken Starr for President, because he's working hard in front of the Supreme Court trying to slap even more censorship on the topic of [censored].
So he should be the perfect guy for you all!
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Salon's Daily Obama Bashing...
Today's Daily "Salon Obama Bashing" is brought to you by Tim Grieve, who has found a tiny nugget of news with which to whack away at Obama.
Stay on that message, Salon staff. Joan is watching. And those tickets to Hillary's inaugural balls aren't going to get into your hot little hands all by themselves, now are they?
Pfffftttt.....
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You guys are missing the point
Of course being a liberal is a good thing. In fact, it's a great thing. But the point is that the right--and by extension the MSM--is painting an inaccurate picture of where the candidates stand in relation to each other. It's up to each individual to decide for themselves whether being a liberal is a good thing or not. Reports like the one Tim is writing about do a disservice to voters of every stripe because they're not accurate. And it serves its purpose for those who wrote it because only a fraction of the voters are going to bother to fact check it. The average voter will accept it on its face.
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Sinclair Lewis' definition of a liberal:
"A liberal is somebody who does not believe that murder is a form of argument" I rather like that.
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But don't worry about Kucinich
When the Supreme Court gets finished, Kucinich won't be able to campaign to legalize [censored], because he won't even be allowed to say the word any more.
We are about to have in this country a definite category of prohibited speech.
The Supreme Court is going to split the difference in the [censored] case by taking the position that [censored]-related speech can be legally prohibited.
After that happens, Kucinich's liberal ratings will probably go down, since he won't even be able to say what he wants to legalize.
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After Bush is Conservative An Epithet yet?
Can we start equating "conservative" with George W. Bush and his policies now and forever more?
Conservative, Bush Conservative, etc. should damn well evoke more negative reactions than Liberal after the demonstration of conservative values by the current administration.
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"liberal" candidates
At this point in time, is the "liberal" label so negative?
It would seem to me that those of us who support candidates like Obama (I haven't committed to anyone yet), should be working to make the words "conservative" and "evangelical" have the same negative connotation. We're already half-way there with the cloud surrounding the label "neocon." Maybe it's time for the labels "liberal" and "progressive" to become symbols of thoughtfulness and purpose and having a vision for the future. The 21st century is here!
Diana W
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The abortion factor
Let's face it - Kucinich has always been a radical critic of free market economics, his relatively conservative score is owed to the fact that he used to be "pro-life."
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Okay, I don't get it
I read over the National Journal's methodology and I still don't get it.
How is it decided what's a conservative vote and what's a liberal vote?
If you voted against Bush's Medicare Prescription Drug Plan is that a liberal vote because the Democratic Leadership was against The Plan? Or is it a conservative vote because voting against The Plan was a vote against Big Government?
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@ Yellow Dog
Nicely put, YD! That's exactly right. Anybody who runs from the liberal label has no place in the Democratic Party; and anybody who runs from it in the wake of the damage the Bush League (and the neocon movement at large) have done to this country's politics, future, and institutions, well, those folks are even worse. You know what made the US great in the 20th century? Liberalism.
Conservatives gave us Red Scares, war profiteering, Great Depressions, isolationism, McCarthyism, Cold War, domino theories, military-industrial complexes, imperial presidencies, banana republics, death squad democracies, ozone holes and global warming, stagnating wages, crony capitalism, savings and loan plundering, declining school standards, religious fundamentalists and terrorist attacks -- and after all of that, you honestly think "liberal" is a bad word??! Wake up!
"Liberal" is not a four-letter word, folks. Embrace it, use it, be proud of it.
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Liberals! Bleh...!
The only type of liberal politician I'd like to see is an out-of-work one.
Brownback-Huckabee '08!
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Hi MD
As a liberal democrat I want to extend an offer of help to you in your quest to have the Republican Party nominate Brownback.
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A Republican talking point that uses fuzzy math?
WHAT are the chances!
If "Conservatives" value property rights, and "Liberals" value people rights, what does it say about our culture when the word "Conservative" is something to be proud of, and the term "liberal" is something to be ashamed of? This is definately a paradime that must be, and will be changed.
The ultimate irony: JESUS CHRIST!!!
If Jesus came back and saw what conservatives do in his name he'd never stop throwing up.