[Vince Ferrer]

Even before I found out that King was a flaming liberal, I never thought much of him as writer.

You can tell he is a flaming liberal from his writing. All of his unlikeable or evil characters have conservative qualities.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Dunno about that. The nutcase Ed Deepneau in Insomnia was a Democrat, albeit allegedly pro-life, and Randall Flagg in The Stand seemed more of a barbaric collectivist like Saddam Hussein or Josef Stalin.