That's because Barnes wouldn't recognize a conservative if they were standing right in front of him with a flashing neon sign around their neck.
My gripe, among many other things, of course, is it drives me nuts when people who should know better, refer to Democrats as “Democratic”. For example, he refers to IMPTOUS Clinton as the “Democratic President”. Just thinking about that makes me laugh-—yeah, ole Bill is pretty democratic, isn’t he?