At least according to John Kerry

Kerry also took questions from the audience; the last came from a glamorous young woman wearing a low-cut white dress who wanted to know how he felt about the charge—levelled by Dean, among others—that he was too similar to Bush to lead the Democrats. “The Bush Administration agenda isn’t conservative Republicanism, and it’s not radical Republicanism—it’s extreme libertarianism,” he replied. “We certainly don’t need another Republican Party.” The woman, a Columbia student named Meredith, had been at Downtown Dean, too.

This single statement says one of two things. Either John Kerry is utterly ignorant of libertarianism and Bush's acts and policies or he is deliberately lying in order to score points with the crowd...and anyone with a high school degree of political knowledge should know his statement is complete bullshit. Whichever it may be, he gets my award for Most Blatant Political Exaggeration of 2003. Fuck man, Bush isn't even a hard rightist or staunch conservative (he pussies out too often and comprimises too regularly to sit on that wing of the spectrum)...it's almost as ridiculous as saying Democrats are the party of personal liberty.

Via Hit & Run.