Democrat/leftists always put a happy sounding label onto whatever they support or describe themselves to be. The progressive label is actually inappropriate as they continually cling to ideals that centralizes state control at the expense of the individual. It's actually regressive and an old concept.

Anyway, this is way off topic. Still fail to see this as nothing but a politically motivated attack on a local sheriff doing his job.

Well, there's something we agree on. :88)

Whoooooshhh.......

Dude the modern American use of the word liberal is very very liberal .
Basicly the way it is used is that any issue an individual of a certain mindset doesn't personally like then they throw in the now meaningless american usage of liberal to condemn it .

So wait, you're saying that conservatives who disagree with liberal policies actually call them "liberal"?

How insightful! :salute:

No , some people who call themselves conservatives will call anything "liberal" if it dosn't fit with their particular view

You have examples of that or are we simply speaking anecdotally?

Oh, and I'm sure that goes both ways so I'm not sure how its relevant to the discussion we were having...

I'm a Libertarian...I get called a neocon by the Left, and a Liberal by the right. I pretty much only care about one thing. That is what is called "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" and what our founding fathers meant in writing the Constitution. I don't care what people do as long as it doesn't hurt others or infringe on someone else's Constitutional rights. You want to smoke a little pot, ok. You want to be gay...knock yourself out. Hey, keep that chimp of yours in the house!

But, whatever you do, you are on your own if you screw it all up. We aren't about bailing out people that dug their own hole. Oh, and taxes tend to really upset some of us, particularly when Congress just raises them to cover their poor ability (that's aimed at both parties) to manage money that we don't have. And, they vote themselves raises while America burns! You can't even make this stuff up!

I really don't care about what people think about my politics. They'll think what they want, and I really don't give a s*** since it's not like I'm going to change their opinion willy-nilly.