[Ar-Cunin]

Well it is a strange concept (seen from the other side of the pond)

In Denmark liberal refers to the economic principal of free market economy and a minimalistic state (as opposed to a welfare state and regulated economy)

This discussion remind me of an old Doonsbury cartoon (of Bush Sr.'s first campaign) where his opponent was accused of being a "raging, frothing liberal" and "he looks like a liberail, speaks like a liberal and spends like a liberal" (or something pretty close to that). Perhaps the last part (spending) is one of the reasons that it is a 'bad' word, as it is assosiated with people who spend (and waste) the taxpayers hard earned money.