Bless His Heart "I often say some variation of dont be so open-minded your brain falls out. Then theres the Robert Frost line, A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel (which Frost may have gotten from someone else). Irving Kristol loved to say that a neoconservative is a liberal mugged by reality. The problem with that phrase, alas, is that sometimes the mugging doesnt take.
From Campus Reform:
A Georgetown University (GU) student who says he was mugged at gunpoint says he can hardly blame his assailants....."