Is anyone else sick to death of the "Liberal Smugness" snarl that's going around lately?

[HughBeaumont]

44. IT IS UNTRUE. I reserve my right to be harsh to people WHO ARE WRONG.

In case you need that translated, I'm NEVER going to stop calling out Conservatives on their sexism, racism, anti-science, proven disaster economics, red-baiting, logical fallacies or their wholesale need to never compromise.

I dunno, you ever heard of a Conservative NOT guilty of one, two or ALL of those aspects in the 21st century? Their Economics: WRONG. Their foreign policy: WRONG and murderous. Their social acumen: WRONG, repressive and dominionist. Their Red-baiting and consistent logical fallacies in their arguments: PROVEN.

I can be as kind as humanly possible and they can be as vehement and repellent as humanly possible and it ain't going to make them any less incorrect. It's not going to make them any more correct when they peddle the same tired and proven-wrong canards time and time and time again as if they were the gospel.

And Goddamnit, if you hire Republicans like Joe Fuckbag Lieberman, you are not running as a liberal Democrat PERIOD. What are we, trying to revise history and go against what political analysts theorized?

There were a number of theories connected to Gore's loss. Gore, according to a 2002 NPR article, attributed it to "the economic downturn and stock market slide that began earlier that year."[46] His running mate, Joe Lieberman, criticized Gore for adopting a populist theme, stating that he had objected to Gore's "people vs. the powerful" message, as he believed that it was not the best strategy for a sitting Vice President (Lieberman also stated that he would still endorse Gore if he decided to run for the 2004 election).[47] Other critics attributed Gore's loss in part to Green Party candidate Ralph Nader who garnered 2.7% of the vote, enough of whose votes which they argued might have otherwise gone to Gore to swing the result.[48][49]

Another theory suggests that Al Gore attempted to run a populist campaign but failed to separate himself from the abuses of the Clinton presidency. The public was not able to forget the Campaign fund raising controversy at the Hsi Lai Temple 1996 United States campaign finance controversy. There is also a theory concerning Al Gore first campaign interviews on CNN.[50]

However, it has been acknowledged that Gore's decision to distance himself from Clinton-whose Gallup approval ratings were well above 50% throughout the year-[51] was a costly mistake for his campaign