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...nervous, and not just because the President of the world’s only remaining superpower had just referred to his opponent as “Senator Kennedy”. It had never before occurred to me that being “liberal?? was a bad thing, and, since I have always considered myself to be so ideologically inclined, my infant life in politics flashed before my eyes. Would I be branded for all my days, stripped of all credibility by this self-imposed semantic burden? Just as I was teetering precariously on the brink of emotional devastation...
Despite this apparent benignity, one need only examine the competing presidential campaigns to see how scared politicians really are of the “liberal?...
...used by their opponents: 155 times on the President’s official re-election website and 194 times on the homepage of the Republican National Committee. In nearly all of these 349 cases, the GOP attacks John Kerry as being any one of an “extreme liberal??, a “tax-and-spend liberal??, a “clueless liberal??, a “big spending liberal??, a “flip-flopping liberal??, a “limousine liberal??, or, for that matter...
...foreign policy debate was a lot more fluid and insightful,” said attendee Shaan K. Hathirmani ’08, who added that he thought the domestic panel got too caught up in defining “liberal?? and “conservative...
...sorts of situations. Republicans now want to remove large numbers of troops from Germany and South Korea, democratize the Middle East, follow the “Bush doctrine” of preemption, and amend the constitution to ban gay-marriage. While not textbook “liberal?? positions, these policies are nonetheless very serious changes to the status quo. “Liberal?? can have all sorts of different meanings, but in modern American parlance it has come to denote someone who is left wing—someone who favors changing existing arrangements. Likewise the typical...