I've written off the intellectual elite zealots as victims of modern fashion. Only thing that makes sense about liberals or OOPS as they're now calling themselves "progressives" Focus group tested and "hip"
See for yourself:
http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/05/06/thu/index.html
With such marketing research like that and endorsements from P Diddy Al Franken, MIchael Moore and whatever other idiot famous pop celebrity is hip at the moment how can you go wrong?
After all, for a lot of 'em is all about rebellion. Plain and simple..
rjp