...someone leaves high school after graduating or leaving in the freshman or junior year with a fixed set of principles and never reading anything again. Reading anything that might challenge his or her youthful ideas.
Now ,imagine that same person with a cigar in his mouth, slightly balding, beard of some sort, and a beer belly of some size, sitting at a key board discussing politics, and whining about Bush.
Now try to imagine that person as anything but a a leftist Democrat, or New York liberal.
I'll bet you can't.