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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Hillary Clinton Was Liberal. Hillary Clinton Is Liberal. [View all]Vattel
(9,289 posts)62. she has been liberal on some issues but on others she has been more moderate or conservative.
Her current rhetoric is pretty liberal but her record, not so much. In terms of her record, I would say:
Abortion rights, liberal. War, conservative to moderate. Capital punishment, moderate. War on drugs, moderate to conservative. LGBTQ rights, moderate (finally became liberal in 2013). Animal well-being, conservative. Environment, moderate. Economic justice, moderate. Providing for the needy, moderate. State surveillance, conservative to moderate.
Overall, she has been a moderate, not a liberal. But maybe my standards for being a liberal are higher than the average American's.
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Were the facts on your side when she was on the board of executives for Wal Mart?
berni_mccoy
Nov 2015
#42
Wen faced with the fact that she might not be liberal,your response is not unlike many others
berni_mccoy
Nov 2015
#53
Pro-war, pro-Wall Street, pro-fracking, pro-Keystone XL, pro-H1B Visas, pro-TPP.That's a "liberal"?
Scuba
Nov 2015
#14
Pro-war, pro-Wall Street, pro-fracking, pro-Keystone XL, pro-H1B Visas.That's "solid liberal"?
Scuba
Nov 2015
#23
Move over Ghandi, that "Liberal" Goldwater Girl is to the left of you.....
NorthCarolina
Nov 2015
#10
Oh yeah sure because moderate one week and Progressive the next without making a changes in any
Autumn
Nov 2015
#63
Is it hard for one to figure out if one is a moderate or a Progressive? It was easy for me.
Autumn
Nov 2015
#65
She's the best Democratic presidential candidate to have in order to defeat the Republicans in the
workinclasszero
Nov 2015
#57
If a candidate can't win against the Republicans, it doesn't matter how good their
BlueCaliDem
Nov 2015
#59