He believes correctly. Look at all the people that scream in his defense and rationalize/excuse and obfuscate every time someone mentions his actual documented record of liberalism.
Willful blindness does not make conservatives. It makes Liberals.
We need a serious, intelligent, principled conservative, not a clownish dork with bad hair, no knowledge of conservative values, no sense of why we're angry about the dangerous drift toward socialism under Obama, and none of the milk of human kindness that is a blessing in civil society.