[Kurt_D]

Very simple it is a true and accurate phrase. Liberals in MASS are especially obnoxious and useless... These people should be doing policy in Sweden or Germany and NOT in this awesome Republic.

[garbanzo]

Massachussets liberal: People's Republic of Cambridge, Harvard, Gerry Studs, Ted Kennedy, Barney Frank, Michael Dukakis, John Kerry, etc.

[fr_freak]

When Bush used the expression a third time, Stegman said, "I thought to myself: How did this become such a pejorative?"

I live in California and I have to take far worse things said about my home state (unfortunately, alot of it is true). So I don't want to hear any more crying from this guy.

[Prime Choice]

Stegman said, "I thought to myself: How did this become such a pejorative?"

It became a pejorative when the world finally woke up to what Liberals do to society, the economy, and how they snuggle up to the enemy.

Stegman needs to pull her head out of her @$$.

[rantblogger]

Go see Tank & Tanqueray - Something about Massachusetts.



You may also be appreciative that the Massachusetts Senators have a prison record in their state considerably worse than Abu Ghraib.

[Husker24]

Massachusetts liberal is code for 'out of touch with the rest of the country.' That is how I interpret it," Rob Stegman said.

Right on, and as long as you people keep electing that piece of sh!t Kennedy you will continue to get that label no matter who the governor is.

[TigerLikesRooster]

RE #1

They "earned" the label. If they do not like it, they should work hard to lose it, instead of just whining about it. They behave like French. After so much anti-Americanism, when America started boycotting some of their products, they turned around and said, "Why?"

[RWR8189]

"Massachusetts liberal is code for 'out of touch with the rest of the country.' That is how I interpret it," Rob Stegman said.

"We've got the Republic of Cambridge here," he said facetiously. "We are all socialists and of course we are all elitists. You say Massachusetts liberal, and that means we all believe in high taxes and you know we believe in gay marriage, right?"

This guy really knows what he's talking about!

[GeronL]

When Bush used the expression a third time, Stegman said, "I thought to myself: How did this become such a pejorative?"

If she doesn't know she is too stupid to understand

[familyop]

What...? They can dish it out, but they can't take it? Even some Massachussetts people who consider themselves to be conservative tell me that everyone who doesn't live in the northeast is "stupid."

[DaveMSmith]

If they were baffled by the term liberal, perhaps the Senators would prefer to be addressed as the murderer and the traitor?

[wrbones]

Where do ya get a copy of the dictionary those folks use?

They have some pretty interestin' definitions fer words...

Nazi, Fascist, Liberal...

[SpyGuy]

"Massachusetts liberal is code for 'out of touch with the rest of the country.'

No, it's a convenient label for those 'out of touch with reality.'

[Beckwith]

the Massachusetts liberal label was "a way to link Kerry to Michael Dukakis,"

Kerry doesn't need to be linked to anyone. He's a Massachusetts liberal, end of story.

The way you link Kerry to Dukakis is to remind people that Kerry was The Duke's lieutenant governor.

[Smoote]

Can't the LA Times find anything more worthwhile to write about? Liberals whining is hardly news.

[Lando Lincoln]

Could have the same impact as when President Reagan called the Soviet Union an "evil empire". I'll just bet it has many decent people from the east taking stock in their convictions.

Lando

[angkor]

"I thought to myself: How did this become such a pejorative?"

It would be the hallmark of a Massachusetts liberal to believe that "Massachusetts liberal" had ever been anything but a pejorative.

They're so proud of their liberalness that they can't fathom the rest of America sees them as socialists and elitists.

[Clintonfatigued]

"Dukakis was overwhelmingly defeated in his 1988 bid to become president by the current president's father, George H.W. Bush."

I don't enjoy saying this, but Bush the Elder did not win an overwhelming victory. He defeated Dukakis by 54% to 46%, a healthy enough margin in a Presidential race, but no landslide. And while the electoral vote was 426 to 112, Bush's margin in many states was very thin.

[Tennessean4Bush]

Massachusetts liberal is code for 'out of touch with the rest of the country.' That is how I interpret it," Rob Stegman said.

Yep. Must we light a candle to see the sun?

[hosepipe]

Elizabeth Mehren has her head up her Mass...