Bush is getting desperate in his campaign.

[DanS]

Bush is using that language because his polling is showing that it is having some impact.

Does anybody here think that Kerry isn't a liberal?

[Dinner]

I know Bush isn't a conservative. That man spends like a crack addict who broke out of rehab.

[DinoDoc]

Re: Bush is getting desperate in his campaign.

Originally posted by MrFun
I resent the way Bush and others use the word "liberal" to tar others because there is NOTHING wrong with the principle of liberalism.

If he were really insulting Kerry, he'd be refering to him as the Liberal Senator from the People's Republic of Taxachusettes.

[DinoDoc]

Re Bush getting desperate: Poll: Bush leads by 8 points

[The Emperor Fabulous]

All Hail the Republic!

[OzzyKP]

Originally posted by Whaleboy
From what I gather, liberal has become something of an insult in middle America Just like "libertarian" or "Jew" was an insult in Nazi Germany... idiots prefer labels to fabric, as it were.

Libertarian was an insult in Nazi Germany?

[MrFun]

Originally posted by DanS
Bush is using that language because his polling is showing that it is having some impact.

Does anybody here think that Kerry isn't a liberal?

The problem is not that whether or not Kerry is a liberal.



The problem I have with Bush, is that he thinks he can use the word "liberal" in of itself as an insult. As if we are supposed to be scared of liberal politicians -- that they are somehow evil.

[Fake Boris]

Obviously, the conservatives' reliance on the potential pejorativeness of labels show that they can wage any war - except one involving sound arguments.

[DanS]

The problem I have with Bush, is that he thinks he can use the word "liberal" in of itself as an insult. As if we are supposed to be scared of liberal politicians -- that they are somehow evil.

I think those who are scared of liberal politicians came by these opinions on their own accord. Bush hardly needs to imbue the word with his own meaning.

[Zkribbler]

<-- Proud to be a liberal.

Originally posted by Oerdin
I know Bush isn't a conservative. That man spend like a crack addict who broke out of rehab.

Pat Buchanan's new book "How the Right Went Wrong" talks about how the neocons have subverted true conservatism -- for example, by enlarging the federal government and by spending money like a crack addict who broke out of rehab.

[Dis]

desperate?

you realize Bush is up by 8 points in the polls and he is going to absolutely crush John Kerry in the elecition, right?

[Imran Siddiqui]

8 points? What in one poll?

Pat Buchanan's new book "How the Right Went Wrong" talks about how the neocons have subverted true conservatism -- for example, by enlarging the federal government and by spending money like a crack addict who broke out of rehab.

That's impossible. Neo-conservatism is a foriegn policy and has nothing to do with domestic policies.

[Dis]

Originally posted by MrFun
But it sickens me that there are some people who actually think they can try to use the word "liberal" to insult others.


I refuse to be cowed by such inane thoughts. If you're a liberal, be proud, and hold your head up high.

I use it all the time.

liberals don't have a clue about the real world.

I stand by that remark.

[Fake Boris]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
That's impossible. Neo-conservatism is a foriegn policy and has nothing to do with domestic policies.

well wouldn't that be the point, that 'conservatism' is now seen through the prism of foreign policy, and thus has been subverted?

[Imran Siddiqui]

Originally posted by Oncle Boris
well wouldn't that be the point, that 'conservatism' is now seen through the prism of foreign policy, and thus has been subverted?

Um no, not in terms of domestic spending. What would spending on a Medicare prescription drug benefit have anything to do with foriegn policy?