[Paradox]

As a former liberal (although on a much smaller scale, I was never that heavily involved in politics, but I remain an enigma to my large, otherwise liberal family), I find his story interesting. I am not sure I would put him quite that high on my list of intellectual conservative, but the guy sure knows how to stir up a hornets nest :)

[Sam Cree]

"As a former liberal..."

I also considered myself a "liberal" in college days and even for quite a while afterwards. In spite of this, I didn't believe in leftist doctrine, but was blithely unaware that that's exactly what "liberals" do believe in.

That shows, I guess, that I hadn't exactly thought things through, which is typical, I suppose, of many "liberals." And perhaps "conservatives."