OK, now you've done it

Well I agree with your point about the liberals. Although there is one thing worse than a sanctimonious, preachy liberal, which is a sanctimonious, preachy, intellectual liberal.

Having said that, and at the risk of making a gross generalization, I find conservatives to be even more dull than liberals to talk to, since they are essentially the same as those folks wandering around campus thumping on bibles. In both cases, if you try to reason with them, use statistics, bring in other viewpoints, etc. they just immediately revert to parroting what they've been programmed to say. Now this is going to sound holier-than-thou, but I have literally never known a conservative that wasn't a) ignorant (typically regarding world politics), b) selfish (typically regarding taxation, etc.), and c) close-minded (typically regarding the notion that they could possibly not be entirely correct).

That I find boring, but I would like to talk to the exception to that rule.

But I agree, I'm not that interested in sitting around 'being the choir', and actually in some ways I am more of a federalist than a liberal anyway, so will likely get attacked to boot.

P.S. It took me a long time to figure out why the Dead Kennedys always rant about liberals (e.g. Holiday in Cambodia).