[cynicom]

The term "liberal" was once an honorable political title. This has not been the case in many years. Liberal is just a facade that socialists hide behind as they do not care to be called socialists.

[Camel Joe]

I am a "Liberal" in the Classical economic arena of the esteemed Adam Smith. Keynesian economics only proves that money must be spent to expand the economy. I would prefer that anyone spends it rather than government.

[albertp]

The term "liberal" was once an honorable political title. This has not been the case in many years. Liberal is just a facade that socialists hide behind as they do not care to be called socialists.

I read recently that Walter Cronkite criticized the presumptive Demon-rat candidate John Kerry for shying away from the label of LIBERAL. Walter (first name only, please) said that LIBERAL is an HONORABLE label, and that Ketchup-boy should not shy away from it as if it were something dirty and shameful. It seems that liberals not only deny the label SOCIALIST but run away from the LIBERAL moniker (not to be confused with Lewinsky) as well. They have a point. By calling themselves "centrists," or whatever, and they ARE so numerous, they can then shift, as if by magic, the entire political spectrum. That makes the rest of us rightwing lunatics - the far right, the extreme right, the rabid right, the hate-crime right.

Then there is that ultraliberal, neo-com, neo-soc website, www.prorev.com, or PROGRESSIVE REVIEW, which blasts Kerry in terms similar to those used by Walter Cronkite, and insists that candidate Kerry endorse a pure "progressive" platform. I thought he already did, considering his liberal score in Congress.The "progressive" platform deserves the label CRYPTO-NAZI. But anyhow...