I am not too sure he was a Conservative.
Read my post #22. That song caused a bit of a rift in the band.
I had the wonderful opportunity to actually speak to him about his politics almost a year ago, and he told me that when he was a construction worker in Queens, NY during the Vietnam War, he and his fellow workers used to drop bags of cement on to the hippies who were protesting the war beneath their construction site.
If you do some research, you'll find that Johnny was not thrilled about the song but being in a 4-piece band, sometimes you don't always get what you want.