It is, after all, the genius of the right that it has managed to convince large swaths of the public that the New York Times and NPR are merely liberal equivalents of the Fox News Channel and Rush Limbaugh.
He's not a real opposition politician, the argument goes, he is merely a liberal-sounding insider who has been given Prime Minister Vladimir V. Putin's blessing to compete to make the race look more legitimate and to split the liberal vote.
His bounciness, which he clearly thinks is infectious, is merely exhausting; his liberal use of the F-word tiresome; the rather tired recipe (in the management rather than the culinary sense) he produces for rescuing an ailing hotel business as limp as the salads the establishment is producing before he pitches up.
There is only liberal treachery.
There are no coherent liberal standards; often a liberal is merely someone who craves attention, and who uses many words to say nothing".
For his part, Mr. Limbaugh has dismissed reports about planned liberal alternatives to his program as silly, contending that he is merely a counterweight to overwhelmingly liberal mainstream news and entertainment media.
Josh's sister, Tammy (Ms. Lyonne), who works as a translator of Spanish and is a passionate fighter for liberal causes, is merely amused.
It is too easy to say that his talk of democratic and liberal principles is merely a fig leaf.
The board's conservatives counter that their work is merely a corrective to academia's liberal bent.
Nowadays, a conservative Democrat is one who thinks George W. Bush is merely the spawn of Satan instead of the Antichrist, and a liberal Republican is one who thinks illegal immigrants should merely be beaten with sticks instead of shot.
The question is merely this: If religious freedom and LGBT equality both sound in liberal values, which should win when they conflict?
