Matthews Insists Hillary's a Centrist Democrat; She 'Doesn't Want to Be a Socialist'

Ken Shepherd | January 6, 2016
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Read more at NewsBusters | During a segment on tonight's Hardball centered around Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders's criticism on the campaign trail that Hillary is insufficiently liberal and a flip-flopper on key issues, host Chris Matthews insisted that the architect of single-payer Hillarycare – and the hands-down favorite of abortion-rights absolutists like NARAL Pro-Choice America – is a down the middle centrist, or, at worst, merely a "progressive Democrat" as she self-identifies.