If they tell the truth, what do they have to fear? Wouldn't it be nice if the answer wasn't, *the party*.
"If they tell the truth"
Its just not in their nature to tell the truth. If you spend all of your time believing that there is no real right and wrong in the world (i.e. Abu Graib was the moral equivalent of 9/11) then you have probably stopped believing in truth a long time ago. If they belived in and told the truth they wouldn't be liberals.
If my aunt was man...