Originally Posted by dannyboy

Pasting a label like "socialism" on the Democratic party's position just really irritates me. Do you support social security? Whoops, that's socialist. Do you think that Medicare or Medicaid is good? Whoops, socialist.

Do you favor the bailout? Whoops, socialist.

All of these points are, in fact, items upon which both candidates agree.

Just because a party might favor government intervention, doesn't make it socialist. If that was the case, I'd label the Republicans as socialist, because they have thrown money at everything, domestic and foreign, during the last decade.

Discuss the issue. Don't paste a label upon it, and say, "look, look at this label; it's bad so the position is bad."

It's a cop out for me.