Keith,
A few years ago you wrote on your website that you would thenceforth say "progressive" where theretofore you had said "liberal." As I recall it, the reason was that "liberal" had become a pejorative and that you thought it rhetorically fairer to use a neutral term like "progressive."
Thoughts on the same terminology choice are found in the last paragraph of this.
Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY)