Liberals should be liberals

[RC]

The greatest triumph that conservatives ever achieved is to make liberals embarrassed to call themselves “liberal.”

That thought came to mind as I watched Sen. Hillary Clinton rhetorically wriggle her way, as so many liberals do, right out of using the

L-word to describe herself.

During the CNN/You Tube debate among Democratic presidential candidates, Clinton was asked, “How would you define the word ‘liberal,’ and would you use this word to describe yourself?”

>SNIP<

So, just once I would like to hear a leading Democratic candidate answer the are-you-a-liberal question with the candor of my late Uncle James. He drove ambulances in the Army during World War II and later at a steel mill in my hometown. He was a working class Democrat since Roosevelt’s New Deal wooed him away from the party of Abraham Lincoln.

He used to define “liberal” like this: “Government ought to help people. You got a problem with that?”


http://www.in-forum.com/Opinion/articles/173531


The last line is the Crux of the problem right now. You and I read it as the government ought to help its citizens. All of them that need it.
The conservatives read it as the government shouldn't help anyone except fellow conservatives, meaning just themselves.

Anyway “Government ought to help people. You got a problem with that?” is an excellent answer to a lot of the conservatives arguments.