''You're entitled to your opinion and I'm entitled to mine.''
As our beloved senator from Gopherland Al Franken said, ''you're entitled to your opinion but not to your own set of facts''.
Maher has gone on record and has been quoted here enough times that he is libertarian - that makes him conservative.
I don't care what Maher says about himself. I'm more of a libertarian than he is, and I don't recognize him as anything other than a mad dog of a leftist. Your cute aphorism doesn't change the fact that there is no room for libertarians on the left. The only libertarians in America are part of the conservative coalition.
In any event, what do you think of the ability of the American Anwar al Awlaki to reach other Americans like Nidal Malik Hasan, MD. to persuade him to commit acts of terror on American soil? Al Awlaki must be pretty persuasive huh?