Reply #21: if it were me-- [View All]

[ginnyinWI]

You'd hear a thud--me hitting the floor, passed out from fear!

Seriously, on the liberal question--Kerry is a mixed bag: socially liberal but fiscally conservative (pay as you go), and strong on national security/defending the nation. That's why he is not flatly anti-war; he's anti-stupid, pointless, corporate-driven war (and always has been--he went to Vietnam when he believed in the cause, protested it when he no longer did).

But I think he would order troops out to defend America if necessary. Is that purely liberal? I don't know--it's probably more of a moderate position. Definitely not like the neo-cons, but perhaps closer to where moderate repubs like Hagel or McCain would be than a lot of progressives would like.

And he appeals more to the center because of it. But that's where the votes also happen to be.