Reply #44: oh sure I get it

[marions ghost]

But thanks for the definition and your point is taken. However I believe the wording of this has everything to do with politics.

Many readers of the article don't care about nuances of language and will just hear "liberal" in association with a string of negatives. Certainly this would be true in Greenville SC, the home of Bob Jones University, where they teach the newer definitions of 'liberal.' But since UPI pickled this up, there will of course be more conservative readers elsewhere buying the spin and propagating it.

"Liberal" --in any sense--has become a negative epithet in right wing circles thanks to Rush & Co. Also people don't read things now, they just skim, looking for buzzwords.

Even this subliminal, weaselly use of the word is enough to imply that nuclear sanity is a liberal position. True conservatives are pro-nuke. That's the point.

--Are you familiar with the metaphor, "dog whistle?" That's what this use of the word liberal is.