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"The Left just stole the label to try to make their brand of socialism more acceptable in polite society."

To the best of my knowledge you are exactly right on this. I am absolutely sure that a good many people who call themselves "liberals" would not be in the leftist camp if they did not have such an appealing sounding name as "liberal," with its connotations of liberty, to use for personal identity. If they had to use something more accurate, like leftist, the totalitarian nature of the philosophy would be much more obvious. But the American Left has a fairly long history of double speak.

This post from the Senate Filibuster thread:

"all the libs are falling all over themselves, kissing the ring of the new Latino mayor in LA -- Newsweak giving BIG kudos -- and a "get used to it" tag?? The message is clear -- ANY ethnic is just fabulous UNLESS they're conservative -- hyprocritical maniacs!!

A LATINO POWER SURGE

See the LIBS DROOL

Excerpt:

"Antonio Villaraigosa's cell phone was trilling incessantly. Every Democrat in the nation, it seemed, wanted a piece of the newly elected mayor of Los Angeles, the first Latino to win the office in 133 years. John Kerry phoned to congratulate him, as did John Edwards, Howard Dean, Al Gore and Sen. Chris Dodd. Driving to city hall last Friday as he spoke by phone with a news-week reporter, Villaraigosa interrupted the interview to field yet another call on a different phone.

"Yes, I would like to speak to Senator Clinton," he said. "Can I call you back?" he told the reporter. Afterward, Villaraigosa recounted his exchange with Hillary: "She said that she and President Clinton were just elated with my victory," and "if they could be helpful in any way in the coming weeks and months," they were eager to do so. Villaraigosa said he had responded with a few admiring words of his own. She was "an example of what I need to do as mayor of the city of Los Angeles," he had told her. "Not get so caught up in all of the national attention and focus on my job."

303 posted on 05/23/2005 10:25:40 AM PDT by STARWISE

But the American Left has a fairly long history of double speak.

Good post! It's pretty much all they have. They don't have facts, logic, history or the ability for their ideas to hold up in a debate without ad hominem attacks. In short, they got nuthin'.

BTW, check out Mr. Thompson's blog on his website - it's fascinating. He had to turn the Comments feature off because he was flooded with obscene and, yes, hateful replies by the Tolerant Left(tm).