Whatever it is, it also is present in Jimmy Carter. I think it may have to do with their dishonesty.
There are a few liberals whom I disagree with but who seem like decent people. About the only one I can think of offhand tho is John Kenneth Galbreath. (sp?)
It would be nice to see a liberal just take his medicine and admit he was wrong but I think whatever makes them a liberal is also what makes them skunks.
That's interesting, YD, because Galbraith was one of the first libs I learned to depise.
Galbraithian Philosophy
Galbraith, to Friedman, was a 20th-century version of the early 19th-century Tory Radical of Great Britain. Galbraith believed in the superiority of aristocracy and in its paternalistic authority. These sorts of people -- and they are all too common these days -- deny that the free market should rule, deny that consumers should be allowed choice; and assert that all should be determined by those with "higher minds."
"There is something about him which is just plain creepy."
Agreed, and perhaps his son who has been in some trouble, might have been influenced.
Moyers has been the PBS's answer to a New Age Philosopher, however it is pablum philosophy and seemingly relativistic, just what the libs like.