However, I don't think we're really advocating a concerted effort to just "cleanse" the liberal label. I'm not, anyway, not really. I just don't want us or our candidates to run from this label any longer.

It would be nice to educate the general public on what liberals in this country actually believe, but I don't think that's even absolutely necessary at this point. All you really have to do is point out how blatantly wrong the other side has been and still is.

And you're right about how the meanings of conservative and liberal differ from place to place and time to time. But we don't have to connect to whatever liberals supported throughout the entire span of history or even the entire span of the globe. This is about America right now and how we envision it going forward, and we are currently viewed as being "liberal." So let's not run from it, okay? Let's just let the people know what being "liberal" actually means, and how the people who have been right for the past several years, if not decades, have been "liberals."