[djmcmath]

Jim, I think the point is not so much that Kerry does not have a platform, but that he has made a specific effort to not have a platform. It's almost as if he's gone out of his way to try to be all things to all people. Well, perhaps all things to more people than the competition, anyway. The difficulty in defining a standardized "liberal" platform is that it wouldn't really be Kerry's platform at all -- it would be the flavor of the day, the winds of the moment, the platform that the people in front of him now want him to espouse. Ergo, defining some base-model "liberal platform" is a moot exercise. Sorry.

Dan