I think I read somewhere that he was a democrat at some point in his life.
He is a gentleman and a scholar....and as you pointed out has worked the soil at the family vineyard.
What is happening to this nation today goes beyond party politics...its a mentality that reeks of being ruled by ignorance, emotion and hate.
It's not so much Democrat vs Republican...or liberal vs conservative...it's Washington vs the rest of us.
It just so happens that most of Washington is liberal and Democrat...