Reply #5: This is great. We can't take back our country until we take back our [View All]

party.

Kerry lost the election in my mind when a reporter asked him "are you a liberal?" and he said, "labels don't matter."

That's the same line Dukkakis used when he was asked the same question in 1988. It didn't work then. It's not working now.

Democrats have to stand for something and they have to stand up for people and they have to stand against the right-wing agenda.

We can't do that if we're the other wing of the war and welfare for the rich party.

He should have said, "Look, if a liberal is someone who wants clean air instead of subsidies for polluters, if a liberal is someone who thinks every child in America regardless of race, religion, or wealth deserves a free quality education, deserves free first rate health care, deserves economic opportunities, and safe neighborhoods, if a liberal believes that our government should stop rewarding corporations for polluting and tax evasion and fraud and outsourcing jobs and stealing from electric ratepayers in California and stealing worker's pensions, then YOU'RE DAMN RIGHT I'M A LIBERAL."

That's how you do it. You don't dance around the answer like you're embarrassed about what you are . . .