Well, Shields is a “former” liberal, wanted a 3rd party of McCain-Lieberman (representing the alleged majority middle — funny how two elections at the Presidential level were lost by these two), wrote in 2007 that the Republican party needed to step away from the small government principles of Reagan and Goldwater, called Palin a cancer on the Republican party, and he urged Obama to run for President. All in all . . . not a conservative or a Republican. He’s Jewish, so I guess that allows him to talk like a socialist while pretending to be a Republican by calling himself a neo-conservative.
Actually, Shields is a pro-abort Roman Catholic.