Plug in “Progressive” for “Liberal,” and you’re dead-on correct. I simply can’t help but object to their bastardization and subsequent co-opting of a term which once applied accurately to the Founding Fathers. It is distasteful and absurd that Obama and Jefferson could be ideologically connected in any way.

We need to call a spade a spade, and abjure all imprecise terminology. We are not now confronted by Democrats, and certainly not by Liberals. We are living through the death throes of an entire ideology — Collectivism — as it both gasps for air and tries to drag down all in its reach. Calling Progressives by their name and thus forcing people to recognize them as what they are will go a long way towards hastening their last experience with power.

Maybe the problem is the lack — and this is a relatively modern phenomena I would say, as I can remember a time when things were far less tenuous in this regard — the lack of concrete nouns to which modifiers accurately apply.
If we can level the playing field down to Conservatives vs. Progressives, which is a perfect reflection of what is happening in Washington and across the country, the misnomers can be confronted and set aside in a logical manner. It would be far more difficult to be Lindsey Graham.
At dinner a few nights ago, a friend who I suppose votes Progressive but who hopefully is in the process of outgrowing such things, expressed confusion as to how I could be simultaneously the most Conservative and Liberal person she knows. And it took me a second, but then I realized much of what she has been conditioned to see as “Liberal” is actually Conservatism applied to human interaction. And I explained that the difference between me and a Modern Liberal/Progressive is that my predilection towards leaving people alone to live their own lives does not reinforce my sense of Virtue. It does not make me feel like I am a “good” person, it makes me feel like a rational person, as I recognize to be left alone, I need to leave others alone. Which is why I qualify as a Conservative who believes what Moe points out above. And the next and obvious acknowledgement for those of us who feel this way, is that I am not religious, and thus have only Reason to which to look in making every decision, as opposed to Faith or the teachings of a Church. In abortion’s case, this leaves me perfectly willing to acknowledge it is wrong, but so is War. The Problem is that some things are worse, chief among them the Power inherent in telling someone else what to do with their body or life. Late-term abortion is an obscenity. Early term is the ending of the life cycle of a group of cells, as yet unaware of their existence.
That said, a huge leap forward for Conservatives would be to take back the language, and provide accurate terminology for the ideological battle we face. If Rush Limbaugh were to cease using Liberal as a catch-all term for the crazies, and call them what they call themselves amongst themselves — Progressive — it would be a great day.
And they would hate it with a passion, as the last thing they can afford is the light of day.