[pwatson]

"A clear-thinking liberal Democrat has the opportunity here. The trouble is that there are few of them."
There is no such thing as a clear thinking liberal. The very definition of a modern Liberal is Socialist. They only think using the emotional brain stem not the frontal lobe for analytical analysis of facts.

[Vicomte13]

"There is no such thing as a clear thinking liberal."

Daniel Patrick Moynihan and Joe Lieberman come to mind as very clear-thinking liberals.

So do Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton, although for these latter two in the sense that Machiavelli was a clear thinker.