Not really, but as I said, it is the minority viewpoint, it does happen to be a viewpoint a big chunk of the especially enthusiastic right holds though, I've heard lots and lots of pundits and radio personalities gripe about it, heck, Ann Coulter devoted like an entire chapter to it in one book. Why would that stop us from wanting to smear it now that we think it's been ruined?



Agreed, obviously. The only term I can think of that the right edges away from these days is 'Christian Conservative' since Reed and Robertson kinda claimed that one and gave it a bad rap, of course we still use and those who don't usually just flip it to 'Conservative Christian'. One has to be realistic, the right didn't demonize the word, anymore than the allies did 'fascism'. Not going for a nazi=liberal reference there, just that events and day to day spin generate the backdrop, not right-wing conspiracies to change a word's meaning. IT didn't help that most liberals on being 'accused' of being liberal say things like 'I'm not liberal' which just makes the public think the word is rightfully bad. I'm pretty sure if conservatives started looking uncomfortable or nervous and proclaiming 'I'm not conservative' the word would get bad too.



Yes, Dukakis is still considered God's gift to the GOP.



Well, 'damned liberals' is such an easy word to mutter, just rolls off the tongue. But realistically at this stage, after so little defense, the word is probably better retired for a generation or two until the image of hippies isn't automatically conjured in most minds by saying the word.

Of course 'progressive' is a really bad choice too. We'd advise something strongly implying the deep left belief in social justice and social equality, or the importance of organizing communities, of getting communities to work together for the greater communal good. Unfortunately 'Social Equalists' or 'community-ists' is a little long and unwieldy, if only there were some way to shorten them, they'd be perfect