Your former best friend must be former for a reason.
Being a liberal means changing your mind with which way the wind blows. A liberal is being absent-minded. At least a "closed-minded" conservative KNOWS what they think.
"At the core of liberalism is the spoiled child - miserable, as all spoiled children are, unsatisfied, demanding, ill-disciplined, despotic and useless. Liberalism is a philosphy of sniveling brats."
-- P.J. O'Rourke
Yes, I did say former for a reason. We had a huge argument over quite a few issues and we don't speak to each other anymore.