The standard paradigm in political lexicon is that liberals have compassion for their fellow man and conservatives do not. So much so that we've even termed the phase to acknowledge such.
However, let's play a game....
Let's assume that an alcoholic comes to you begging for a drink. You know a drink will only add to his demise. Are you compassionate if you give him the drink for which he is begging or do you not?
How do you think a liberal would handle this v. a conservative or would their be a difference at all?
There is a great piece in the American Thinker about compassion v. idiot compassion.
My personal experience is that liberals are the most compassionate people in the world so long as 1) they don't have to pay for their compassion with actual dollars 2) they don't have to get their hands dirty.
See also - John Stossel's "Who Gives the Most"
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