She's a lot further left than just a mere liberal. Red Molly sounds like just another liberal nut many times, but she never reveals that she is actually a socialist. Yes, I know many people on this forum think that liberals and socialists are the same, but they're not.
Liberals are people like Babs Streisand who are basically ignorant (and filthy rich) who believe in taxing people at high rates and smashing babies skulls at birth. Those are just a few of their nutty positions. However they love money and hate the hoi polloi. They don't want the system that has made them hundreds of millions of dollars eradicated. They just want you, the average taxpayer to shell out mightily for their screwball social policies.
Ivins is an out and out radical leftist who would like nothing less than the destruction of capitalism and the free market.
I love the clarity of your post. Too true.
Merry Christmas