[quote=EconProf]ctr70, the original poster of this thread says he leaned left most of his life, then steadily turned to the right politically.
Winston Churchill once said, paraphrasing, if one is young and not liberal, they have no heart. If one is older and not conservative, they have no head.[/quote]

Here are two classics from conservatives defending themselves.

“I used to be a liberal.” WTF does that have to do with anything?

And Churchill’s quote. Just because one famous guy said it doesn’t make it true. You can easily be a conservative with very little brains. I see it all the time.

In any case, if you’re a die-hard, dyed-in-the-wool, agree-with-all-their-points kind of person on either side of the aisle, it’s only because you can’t think for yourself.