Word: unbeholden
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...LIBERAL. HOW DO YOU RESPOND WHEN CRITICS SAY, "AHA, I KNEW REPORTERS WERE LIBERAL, AND THIS IS WHY THE MEDIA IS BIASED"? I do not consider a liberal necessarily to be a leftist. A liberal to me is one who--and it suits some of the dictionary definitions--is unbeholden to any specific belief or party or group or person, but makes up his or her mind on the basis of the facts and the presentation of those facts at the time. That defines what I am. I have never voted a party line. I vote on the individual...
This is the guy who almost got kicked out of the Senate for his role in a campaign donation scandal. But of course later he apologized and fought tirelessly for campaign finance reform and a government unbeholden to special interests...