“I suppose in all honesty, I’m a liberal,” said the late Walter Cronkite in a snippet of a 1996 interview that Chris Matthews played last night on his program Hardball. “But I would like to define liberal,” Cronkite continued. “I think that the great problem with this label is it has been seriously misused for political purposes.” (Snip) Cronkite saw “liberal” as a broad term meaning essentially a admixture of everything good, kind, sweet, and fuzzy. And in that regard, he didn’t know what he was talking about ...