Because the "liberal" sticker is a death sentence for anyone needing to win an election. It's not because liberalism is any better or worse than conservatism, it's that the majority of voters are almost always conservatives.
A true liberal can't really run solely on his or her ideas...not because those ideas are inherently wrong or because most people disagree with those ideas....but because many of the people who agree with them, will nod their heads and say "hell yeah!", but then fail to show up on election day. It's no mystery why democrats are always hoping for a high turnout, and republicans want a low turnout. It's the same thing every four years: Will liberals show up to the polls, or stay home? On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 2:10 PM, Jerry Barnes <[email protected]> wrote: > > "I keep forgetting that if you don't agree with Sam and Jerry in your > disdain > of democrats, then you are a 'liberal'." > > There's an alternate explanation. > > It is: > > If it looks like a liberal, talks like a liberal, and acts like a liberal, > then it probably is a liberal. > > For the record, I don't like to use the word liberal. Today's liberals > aren't liberals at all. They have highjacked the word. Progressive > Statist is much more appropriate. > > One thing I can figure out is why progressive statists are so offended when > they are identified as such. I see commercial after commercial of > candidates calling themselves conservative yet I never see a commercial > with a candidate calling themselves progressive or liberal. > > Too embarrassed I guess. > > J > > - > > No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that > because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life > regardless of his own merits or efforts. - Booker T. Washington > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:357710 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
