I'm talking about the friends in my real life; and I've got a lot of them.
To a person, they won't consider voting for Kerry......and they ARE conservative.
There is no statistical evidence that Boomers are some distinctively liberal cohort working their way through the intestines of the body politic. None whatsoever. If any fit that bill to some extent, it was the GI generation. Boomers do however tend to be somewhat more ideological as a generation than those which append them. That is why Boomers are so well represented on this forum. :) Your interlocutor is just pounding the keyboard. Pay it no mind.