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

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47. you know I thought I was wrong once

but I was mistaken.

I was really just unoriginal.

It's not a crime to be wrong. It happens.

Being harsh to people who are wrong is simply NOT an effective way to convince people that they are wrong. If you are trying to change hearts and minds, trying to make the world a better place, then you are doing it WRONG.

You know what I think is wrong, even one of the worst kinds of wrong? Cruelty, that's what. And you just basically said "I reserve my right to be cruel to people who are wrong."

Well I suggest you start with the man in the mirror then.

As for revising history. Yes, you do seem to be doing that. Even the quote you use there. It makes MY argument. It says that Gore used a populist theme.

You also say that Clinton was popular. Well, that wasn't the question, was it? I said Clinton was NOT liberal. So Gore is not running away from liberalism by distancing himself from Clinton. Given the atmosphere of the press, Gore basically HAD to distance himself from Clinton in order to keep the press from beating him up. Of course, as it turned out, the press kept beating him up anyway.

Then again, so did Nader. And without Nader on the ballot, Gore wins New Hampshire and disaster is averted. Gore becomes President in 2001. To deny that is to revise history. Nader also almost cost Gore Iowa, and New Mexico and Oregon and Wisconsin and so on. Nader did everything he could to help Bush win, and he succeeded. Like most people though, he is still unable to admit he was wrong.