The "L" word gets some love from Walter Cronkite on Tom Paine.Com. His letter to Senator Kerry can be
read here.
The first time I heard Dean speak he rallied the troops. Man, I was so excited to hear a guy say that we don't need to apologize for who we are! I think we need to follow that advice.
Bush is running as a compassionate conservative. The tacit implication is that conservatives are evil mothers, with very little compassion.
Compassion must be cultivated. You have to work at it. I am a liberal who is liberal. It's easy to say no, much harder to say yes. Like the Beatles said so tunefully, "I don't know why you say goodbye, I say hello."
We don't preserve our liberties by taking them away, we don't become inclusive by being exclusive, we will never achieve peace through violence and war, we can't defeat hate unless we love, and we are not going to win by becoming our enemy. As Dean stated by being Bush lite. I would say the truth is more like Bush new and improved, plus an extra added ingredient. The impending result of this policy shift, this failure to stand on principle by Democrats, is moving the country, in the words of Paul Krugman towards one party rule. We don't need that! The GOP is doing a fine job of it without the aid of liberals like Kerry.