Bradley in DC
08-06-2007, 10:38 PM
http://blogs.usatoday.com/oped/2007/08/why-liberal-doe.html
Why 'liberal' doesn't quite fit
Just listen to Democrats, and you’ll hear the p-words (progressive, populist) rather than the l-word. Yet this shift is an embrace of, rather than a retreat from, leftist thinking.
By Jonah Goldberg
As late as 1951, Sen. Robert Taft, "Mr. Republican" to his fans, insisted he wasn't so much a conservative as merely an "an old fashioned liberal (http://hnn.us/roundup/comments/8896.html)."
Why 'liberal' doesn't quite fit
Just listen to Democrats, and you’ll hear the p-words (progressive, populist) rather than the l-word. Yet this shift is an embrace of, rather than a retreat from, leftist thinking.
By Jonah Goldberg
As late as 1951, Sen. Robert Taft, "Mr. Republican" to his fans, insisted he wasn't so much a conservative as merely an "an old fashioned liberal (http://hnn.us/roundup/comments/8896.html)."