Re: Liberalsim as dirty word

On Nov 14, 7:36 am, "Dennis" <no.surren...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
FROM (PHILADELPHIA) BULLETIN

HEAD: Survey: Liberals Viewed Negatively

According to a national telephone survey of 1,000 likely voters, conducted
by the polling firm of Rasmussen Reports on Nov. 1, most U.S. voters think
the only thing worse than calling a candidate a conservative is calling him
a liberal.

Liberal is the only one of the five political labels surveyed that is viewed
more negatively than positively Rasmussen said in a Nov. 11 press release..

Democrats viewed progressive as a positive term. Republicans felt positive
about comparisons to Ronald Reagan. Independents like the term moderate.

These results replicate those revealed in a survey in July 2007.

Among the findings of the survey are:

* 43 percent of all voters think it best to describe a political candidate
as being like Reagan. According to a new Rasmussen Reports national
telephone survey, 26 percent see it as a negative, 29 percent regard it as
somewhere in between. Two percent are undecided.

* 40 percent of voters say it is positive to call a candidate a progressive
or a moderate. 16 percent see progressive as a negative and 40 percent
somewhere in between. Eight percent view moderate as a negative, while half
(50 percent) say it's somewhere between the two.

* 37 percent say it is a positive to describe a candidate as politically
conservative, 22 percent see that as a negative comparison, and 40 percent
find it somewhere in-between.

* 19 percent regard liberal as a positive term.,36 percent say it's a
negative reference, For 41 percent, it falls somewhere between negative and
positive.

According to Dr. Charles Dunn, dean of the school of government at Regent
University, calling someone a liberal has not always been held in disfavor.
During the 1940s and 1950s it was quite the opposite.

"Then the term conservative was almost a dirty word," he said. "It was
during this era that William F. Buckley and Russell Kirk began writing about
the virtues of conservatism. But they were not on the radar screen."

Liberal began to have a negative connotation in the early 1970s. But it was
during the 1980s, and the presidency of Ronald Reagan, the word liberal
really became a pejorative Mr. Dunn said.
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As it is, and deservedly so, should be today.

I predict voter regret within six months of B.O.M.B. (Beee-ooo, the Monkey
Boy) occupying Da Honky Crib in Da Hood (formerly the White House). Check
out left wing-nut blogs...it's already starting, and B.O.M.B (Beee-ooo, the
Monkey Boy), he ain't even done swored on de bible yet.

I grieve for my Republic

Dionysus



So what. The fact that Bush was elected twice proves that the
American people can be wrong at times. I'll wait while you write,
"well, they voted for Obama and yadda yadda yadda"....

People haven't been informed why Reagan was a bad President. The
newspapers and television never dissect his policies but they have no
problem attacking Clinton (I hate Clinton so I don't care except that
they keep writing and saying Clinton was a Democrat. He was a
Republican lite. Look at the laws he passed. Most were probusiness.)

If our media did it's job, more people would hate Reagan. Those
people who have lost wages over the last twenty-eight years would
start to understand that it was Reagan who started the whole smashing
down of the middle class.

Next time you hear someone praising Reagan, ask them why. After they
stumble through the whole false history of Reagan bringing down
Russia, they'll end up having nothing else to say. This is because
they're undereducated about Reagan.
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