(August 12, 2011 at 7:15 pm)DeistPaladin Wrote:(August 12, 2011 at 6:49 pm)thesummerqueen Wrote: I'd like to know at what point it became such a dirty word to be a liberal, and when they all lost their goddamn spines.
In the 1980s. Reagan's humiliating defeat of Mondale (what WERE the Dems thinking?) and Bush's defeat of Dukakis gave the Dems lasting shell shock.
Actually, democrats have not recovered from the discovery that a certain precept behind liberalism that they have really held sacred is clearly false, while their opponent have been able clean their clock by disingenuously pretending it to be true.