LIBERAL MCCARTHYITES

Lanny Davis, a liberal, has written an article at the WSJ on "Liberal McCarthyism." His examples tend to come from the Lamont-Lieberman race in Connecticut and I sense a liberal having self-doubts about how so-called liberals of today are behaving. He states: The far right does not have a monopoly on bigotry and hatred and sanctimony. He goes on to give some examples. This a a phenomena I have been thinking about for some time, because when I was in school liberals were considered to be thoughtful people who were separate from the radical left of the SDS or Chicago Seven. Liberals did not all have to walk lock-step ideologically. Liberals at that time probably had a smug sense of superiority that they were behaving at a higher level in their political conversation than the conservative right. Liberalism has shifted its ideals . . .or maybe it has been silenced by the new radical left.