Reply #1: DFA is beyond ridiculousness

[karynnj]

I still have not forgiven them for their idiotic posting of the Bold Progressive garbage - that included Kerry when they were attacking Senators on the public option, in spite of the fact that he was an early, clear supporter. They included him just on the dollars raised from the insurance companies, that was mostly individual donations to his Presidential campaign. The DFA new better - Kerry was always on Dean's list as a supporter - but I suspect they contain the hard remnants of the group who think that somehow Kerry, the party, the media, TPTB etc cheated Dean out of his rightful nomination in 2004.

I did vote for Kerry, even though they are just fishing for names and emails - I am already subscribed to them anyway. The descriptions are stupid - every Democrat voted to end DADT and most supported the Dream Act. Harkin is noted as voting against gutting the EPA - when his, like many progressives', was not even a sure vote for Kerry's climate change bill,

I have a big problem with the word "progressive" anyway. I understand what liberal means in any context - social issues, economic issues etc, but there are contradictions on what "progressive" actually means. A few years ago, I looked at one organization's scores because the Senators did not line up as I would expect. Not placing Kerry high was actually not my biggest problem - having Byrd high and Sherrod Brown in the middle (tied with Kerry) was. However, as it was posted against Kerry, I looked at the difference in votes between Feingold (the second highest) and Kerry for the first half of the year.

My conclusion was that in nearly ALL cases I agreed with Kerry. http://journals.democraticunderground.com/karynnj/33 contains the summary I created of all votes where they disagreed. From this, I think that Kerry, like Kennedy was, is a liberal. It seems that progressives - at least from this group - are more libertarian than liberal.