[Vision2020] What Does 'Too Liberal' Mean?

[Tom Hansen]

>From the November 10, 2006 edition of the Lewiston Tribune with thanks to
Chris Norden -

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What does 'too liberal' mean? 

It appears that very little of the mud and excrement thrown at Democrats
stuck this time, and that instead it's Bush and Cheney who are about as
popular as a California arsonist and a child-molesting priest. Only in
rearguard locales like Idaho and the Deep South, with their shrinking blocks
of 1950's vintage "white" voters, do the Limbaughs and Hannitys and Roves
succeed in portraying Democrats as evil monsters who drink the blood of
Christian babies and want to force gay sex in the aisles on Sunday. 

In Idaho, Bill Sali won by a mere 5 percent against Larry Grant. Of the 55
percent who voted for Sali, no doubt some genuinely approved of their
candidate's ideology and political/personal style - what House Speaker
Newcomb meant when he called him an idiot. But I'll bet that 5 percent
margin can be more than accounted for by the millions of dollars' worth of
advertising smearing Grant as "too liberal for Idaho." 

For the record, here's what liberal Democrats believe: full equality under
the law for all Americans; nonviolent and low-cost solutions whenever
possible; quality education as an investment in national security; health
care as a basic right for all Americans; zero tolerance for government
corruption; public lands as the inviolable and sacred birthright of all
Americans; fair and livable wages for an honest day's work. Pretty scary,
huh? 

Chris Norden 
Moscow

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"Forty percent of the mass of every tree in the forest is crude oil.  Stop
and think about that.  We call them fossil fuels because they used to be
live stuff . . . now in the ground is turned into crude oil." 

- Bill Sali (September 21, 2006)