"What really gets me about labels, particularly liberal, is that all they do is simplify the argument," he says.

He knows how to use the liberal label as a positive.

Sullivan rejected the "liberal" label, and set out his grounds in a published article in response.

He made conservatism such an honored term that Democrats had to flee its antonym, the liberal label.

But her friends say that the liberal label is too simplistic.

I'll tell you my positions, and if you want to put a liberal or conservative label on it, that's fine.'

Yet the labels conservative and liberal do not fully capture this court.

Using the liberal label without a huge justification is a waste.

Mr. Dole also tried to use the liberal label.

I don't know how you can put a conservative or liberal label on that.