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Originally Posted by cthulu23
Do you actually believe in this liberal caricature...
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Yep, I only have to look at these boards to reinforce it.
What I don't get is why so few liberals are proud to say they are liberal. Is it because Reagan made it a dirty word? If you believe it, shout it out, say this is who you are, this is how I think society should be run.
Of course that would never get them elected, but at least they would be honest.
Love him or loathe him, everyone knows where GWB will stand on an issue. He will state quite openly what he believes. When I voted for Bush I knew what I was getting, and I don’t like all of it, but I knew I could live with it. When I looked at Kerry I had no idea how he would react to certain issues. Sometimes he was a hawk, sometimes a dove, sometimes a hippie. Some of Kerry’s interviews and speeches before he went for the nomination I would have thought ‘here is a good democrat I can live with’, but again speeches are just words. When you look at Kerry’s actions and inactions in the senate it tells another story. So should I have believed what he said or what he did? Should I think he will be a different man as president then he was as a 20 year senator? Should I listen to the hawk Kerry of 1998, or was he just saying things to be in lock step with Clinton? Should I listen to the dove of primary or the moderate of the presidential campaign?