Liberalism is a four letter word?

[StopThief]

Laura Ingraham just credited Ronald Reagan for making Liberalism a four letter word.

"John Kerry will not call himself a Liberal because of Ronald Reagan"

Can you believe that?

[DebJ]

1. any more than 4 letters and W can't spell it!

[lapfog_1]

2. Liberal is not a 4 letter word, but conservative IS

and that word is NAZI.

Game, set, and match Laura.

[efhmc]

3. And that word is "hope".

[newsguyatl]

4. i actually kinda agree with that

dems today ARE afraid to use them term liberal. it's sad.

[Langis]

5. Yes it's true

Kerry is one of them as well, he will not call him self a liberal.

[Just Me]

7. No. I disagree with being painted as if a one-dimensional "thing".

I am more than just a liberal-thinker/problem-solver/strategist.

I am also a mother and daughter and knowledge-herder and human being.

I am also spiritual, curious, compassionate and thinking.

I find it repulsive that a single word is ever used to describe any person. It just makes me sick.

[newsguyatl]

8. well all that goes without saying

but when solely referring to one's political leanings, most dems today are afraid of the l word. i sure as hell am not.

[Joanne98]

6. She's a Richard Mellon Scaife charity case

Her books sales always have daggers next to them (bulk sales) Coulter is about done. As soon as we take Ann off the grill we'll start on Laura. I got a theory about her and it's a hot one. If it's true she'll go down in flames. Don't ask me though, it's not ready yet.:)

[Hoping4Change]

9. Democrats used to thrive on Hollywood endings. Today, liberalism

The following except from Liberal's Lost Script (American Prospect)says that liberals used to have the corner on optimism. Liberals must rediscover their Rooseveltian sense of hope and convince Americans that they again have a rendezvous with destiny. That is both liberalism's tradition and its traditional appeal.

"Democrats used to thrive on Hollywood endings. Today, liberalism is more like a dark, complicated novel. It's time to go back to making movies.

Or to put it in more homely terms, conservatism has become a Hollywood movie, liberalism has become literature. Like the movie blockbusters, contemporary conservatives centralize action, extol the power of the individual to bend the world to his or her will, demonize enemies to the point where anything short of annihilation would be a surrender, operate from an absolute confidence in the hero's rightness while treating opposition to it as a form of treason...

.. Contemporary liberals, on the other hand, like the best literature, centralize thought and deliberation rather than action, fasten on human interconnectedness and the inability of any one individual (or nation) to command events, attempt to understand the complexity of life, operate from a decidedly wary position when it comes to absolute certainties, and promise no final victories.

TO READ MORE

http://www.prospect.org/web/page.ww?section=root&name=ViewPrint&articleId=7506