He used to be liberal. Now he is ambitious and it is not politic to be liberal so he is no longer. Unfortunately his judgement about where to compromise with republicans has been very bad. He has compromised on all the wrong issues IMO. Frankly he has just been plain wrong in the last several years.
8. Progressive? John Kerry? Maybe compared to Tom DeLay he is.
But by definition he is not. He`s a middle-of-the-roader who plays it safe. Progressives believe in social reform, not a continuation of the same old policies developed by the same old ruling class.
How "progressive" was Kerry on November 3rd? Or when he voted to give Bush a blank check for the Iraq War? On the Patriot Act? On the struggles of the Palestinians?
Was he a leading voice against torture? Homelessness? Poverty? He didn`t even get on the outsourcing bandwagon until he heard others talking about it.
Kerry operates in safe mode. Nothing "progressive" about that.
He was way too straightlaced and safe to be progressive. Of course, he's not Lierberman-style Republican Lite/moderate but he certainly isn't Feingold-style progressive. Somewhere in the between, I guess.
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