its long overdue to get real about the region and stop living in the world of illusions a first step would be to drop the misleading term middle east peace process thats not simply wordsmithing but rather changing the way we think about this vital and volatile region middle east peace process high time for a new name tough liberal and nice conservative sound like oxymorons they defy political stereotypes but the ideal democratic candidate is a tough liberal and the ideal republican candidate is a nice conservative hillary clinton and jeb bush are aiming to meet those standards a twooxymoron race