A liberal mindset

It will be interesting to look back at this article by a garden variety liberal columnist after the election in the fall.  Tomasky presents the standard arguments for the liberals as the 'good' guys versus the bad old republicans.  These tiresome liberal arguments, at least to this conservative, seem to defy reason.  For example, Tomasky says liberals always argue on behalf of specific programs and plans to benefit people while republicans speak in generalities about 'freedom', and 'liberty', and the like.  The question is why does he think it should be otherwise since republicans (conservatives) don't want a lot of intrusive programs, and the like, fobbed off on them by a big government leviathan state that simply grows bigger because that's what it does best at the expense of diminishing the freedoms of the individual.  It's as though the guy never heard of limited government as proscribed in the US Constitution.  It's as though the guy never heard of Ronald Reagan.  It's as though the guy never heard of the USSR and the gulags for crying out loud!  Liberals seem to have no memory bank.  At any rate it's hard to imagine this country deciding in the next section to continue with the destructive socialist schemes of Obama and his radical friends.  We'll see.