>In that case perhaps you can explain why so many liberals "come around" to conservative thinking as they get older. It has been suggested elsewhere that this occurs when people become responsible and lose the need for a liberal fashion statement. ;-)


Balderdash. (That was a substitute word). You usually do not make such facile statements. The terms "liberal" and "conservative" are bogus in the first place, nothing more than convenient terms to make the discussion either-or. I know a wide range of people and few of them fit into such neat categories.