Reply #22: That's why I said left and right, as opposed to liberal and conservative. [View All]

Liberal and conservative are really measurements of attitudes towards change. It is much more broad than simply "left wing" or "right wing."

Liberals are open to change. They are usually not happy with the status quo and wish to change it. Conservatives are more happy with the status quo, and if they do wish to see change, they favor slow change. Radicals, on the other hand, favor very rapid change, usually faster than liberals, and reactionaries, like radicals, also favor very rapid change, but they favor retrogressive change instead. That is, they favor going backward. An example of retrogressive change would be favoring a return to segregation and reinstituting the role of women as only being in the kitchen and jobless.

Clinton wasn't a left winger, and neither is Bush. Clinton is where the Republican Party used to be under Barry Goldwater.