Reply #6: I think that you may be on to something here ...

[Pepperbelly]

I was distressed at how clumsily both Kerry and Edwards ran from the word even though neither of them are, IMO, a liberal. But still, the ferver with which they ran away from the word was almost amusing.

If throwing around the word "liberal" is the strongest arrow that Georgie has in his quiver, then good. Both of the Johns need to come up with a better response when some Bush surrogate tries to do lonesome George's wet work for him by painting them with that particular brush.