I couldn't agree with you more and I must confess that I am a guilty participant in the hateful exchange. And yet having lived and witnessed its origin within the Republican Party and its plan as coached by Newt Gingrich to associate all that is evil and treacherous with the Democratic Party; with the Karl Rove machine fine tuning this propaganda and culminating this awful entity and naming it "Liberal" whose negative attributes have been exposed primarily within the GOP itself [especially with clandestine, illegal homosexual trysts], to be hung about the necks of Democrats publicly, incessently; and especially by all of the so called 'liberal' media networks to a point where every commentator would say "Liberal" when they should have said "Democrat" while at the same time, on Hate Radio and Faux Snooze, the likes of Rush the Flaccid Junkie and mAnn Coulter, Sean Only High School Hannity and Bill O'Reilly constantly reinforced the picture with much imaginary embellishment of this limp wristed, wine sipping elitist "liberal" that hated America, loves the rotting socialist cultures of Europe and the world, coward never to serve in the military, flip-flop wishy washy, homo-hugging snob and it goes on and on.

Absolutely nothing in its correct definition of a 'Liberal'.

Having political views in favor of social reform and progress. Tolerant of change; not bound by authoritarianism,