Actually, for a while there when I was in grad school, using a MAC computer and when Sean switched the format of the forums, it would log a visit for me everytime I navigated from one thread to another, one forum to another, hell when I hit refresh button it would add visits, so yeah, it's not nearly 15 visits per day, but sometimes it seems like that. Now that I am in the working world and cannot logon all day long like when I was in grad school that should give some folks like Mongoose or TC a chance to catch up with me!

And jerm, yeah, you know, ever since about 1500AD we have been on a steady march towards greater and greater liberalism in our societies, so it only makes sense that we would have a presidential election between a liberal Republican and a social-liberal Democrat. Viva El Liberalismo!!!!

*Raises hand*

"Here!"

The problem is that being a liberal is currently fashionable. That will change after the next major attack. American political sentiments have always been variant but cyclical.

For example,

Is government mandated universal health care (and note, I am not implying a single payer system) liberalism, or is it leftism? Or is liberalism simply letting people choose whether they want to have the insurance or not.

Is raising the sales tax ever so slightly, such as less than half a percent, so that THEY COULD FIX THE BLEEPING ROADS in the Mississippi Delta liberalism or is it leftism?

What about allowing gay marriage. That certainly seems like liberalism to me, but the conservative demons of the far right have made it out to be leftist degeneration of family values, when in fact there is no basis in fact for such degeneration of much of anything except 'live and let live'.