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HopeHoops

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9. Tough call. I'm socially and politically liberal but in many ways very conservative.

Reply to kentuck (Original post)

Mon Jan 30, 2012, 08:08 PM

Jan 2012

I don't think there's a catch-all definition for liberal or conservative, or independent for that matter. The general definition is one who adheres to tradition and resists change. That sure as shit didn't cover the shrub - the Bill of Rights was his real enemy, not "terrists".

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