Yes like PlanetaryGear- he had a 4.0 GPA and his IQ is off the charts!*****Update, I can't believe people are actually giving this credence. First of all the question was why are you a liberal? Which is discernable from why are you a Democrat. All this talk about politicians and blather about Republicans has nothing to do with why you're a liberal and why you believe liberals are smarter than conservatives. Liberalism- like conservatism- is an ideology that forms from one's perspective of the universe- human nature- and subsequent beliefs regarding justice. To assert that one individual is preconditioned to a particular perspective is naturally more intelligent is simply assinine. There are- and were- brilliant theorists who in actuality are dreadfully wrong about much of what they concluded: Hobbes, Marx, Neitzche, Hegel, Kant. Or some who added points of brilliance and came up short in other areas- like say Locke. There are simply brilliant theorists- both conservatives and liberals- of all generations and backgrounds. And the reality is some of these theorists change the way we view each ideology- hell the birth of neo-conservatism is a fairly recent ideological twist- is William Kristol a moron? To assume we can deduce from one's ideology their intellectual capacity is just plain stupid. Is anyone going to go on record here saying they're smarter than Karl Marx? I surely am not! Or even the numerous leaders of the Soviet Union who were strident communists? It is simply a fact of life that ideology has nothing to do with individual intellectual capacity. Ideologies themselves lose out on grand scales so much larger and more complex than any individual- no matter how intelligent- could possibly comprehend, that cultures will need to change before the individuals will.