Dave F:
Well, that’s an interesting standard you’re proposing. In order to claim that someone has “died for liberalism”, it isn’t enough that they be a liberal themselves, dying in service to a cause supported by other liberals and opposed by conservatives (let’s remember, William F. Buckley’s National Review was harshly critical of the civil rights movement). No, it must be the case the liberals and liberals alone must support the cause for which you’ve died.

I really don’t see why you have to be so stingy in allowing us our martyrs. If you’ll give me Chaney, Goodman and Schwerner, I’ll gladly concede that the roughly four thousand Americans who died in Iraq died for Conservatism, or at least for the Republican Party.