The difference, John, is that the term "liberal" itself was demonized... Yeah, I'll be the first to admit that terms like "nazi, fascist, evil" have been used wrongly by some to depict conservatives but the term "conservative" was never demonized so that folks who thought they were *safe* as thinking they were conservatives were in all actuality very safe...

Not so the "liberal" who had no other place to hide as the conservative PR plummeled them to death with a barrage of PR that pretty much drove the word "liberal" outta an conversation that wasn't a slam against people who didn't agree with conservatives...

The "liberals" didn't do this to the "conservatives"... This was done 100% by the "conservatives" (and their high priced PR firms) to the "liberals"...

This is a major difference, John, that if you are going to write an essay that you need to keep in mind... It's easy to sit on your side and bemoan the fact that you may have been called a nazi because you always had a safe place in thinking yourself a "conservative" but it's much different for those of us who once considered ourselves "liberal" only to find that our one safe place has been bombed into the Stone Age by rich conservatives and their PR firms...

Just think about it for awhile... Try to see it from our side...

I mean, to this very day those of us who once thought ourselves
"liberals" cringe when we are so labeled... That is just how complete the hatchet job was by the conservatives...

But, my hat is off to them... They are very good at assasination... Very good...

George Bush is a master... All he has to do to whip a crowd into a frenzy is do is "Volvo driving, tree huggin', pin head" act and all the so-called conservatives start salivating, just like Pavlov's dog... Problem is that he has convinced way too many people that education = commie and in doing so we have a majot brain drain going on where folks (with brains) don't wnat to work in the US...

Hmmmmmmmmm????

But what about Stroker Ace??? He sho nuff looked good last week in the Halliburton/Budweiser/BlackWater 500, didn't he???

(BTW, John... This isn't directed at you personally... It just a rant that came about from the flow of this thread...)

B~