I happen to be one of those ”bleeding heart” liberals Richard Eastman refers to in his guest column, ”It`s time to call an ideological truce”
(April 2).
My answer to the ”bleeding heart” tag all too often hung on me is to call my accusers ”bleating hearts.” Then I go on to explain that Webster`s New World Dictionary defines a ”bleeding heart” as ”a person regarded as too sentimental or too liberal in his approach to social problems.”
Betimes, I remind them a ”bleating heart” is a person who ”speaks foolishly, whiningly or querulously”-a person inclined to find fault or complain.
With lines drawn between Liberal and Conservative, I find it mentally much more enriching to be ”too sentimental to social problems,” a bleeding heart, than ”a whiner and complainer,” a bleating heart.
