I know that he recorded a song a few years ago opposing the Iraq war, but I didn't know he was actually now a 'liberal' ("liberal" opposing liberty?).
From the article I referenced earlier...
“Okie” defended traditional culture:
We don’t smoke marijuana in Muskogee;
We don’t take our trips on LSD;
We don’t burn our draft cards down on Main Street; We like livin’ right, and bein’ free.
We don’t make a party out of lovin’;
We like holdin’ hands and pitchin’ woo;
We don’t let our hair grow long and shaggy,
Like the hippies out in San Francisco do.
I’m proud to be an Okie from Muskogee,
A place where even squares can have a ball.
We still wave Old Glory down at the courthouse,
And white lightnin’s still the biggest thrill of all.
“Fightin’ Side of Me” was even more aggressive in denouncing the political and cultural Left.
I hear people talkin’ bad,
About the way we have to live here in this country,
Harpin’ on the wars we fight,
An’ gripin’ ’bout the way things oughta be.
An’ I don’t mind ’em switchin’ sides,
An’ standin’ up for things they believe in.
But when they’re runnin’ down my country, man,
They’re walkin’ on the fightin’ side of me.
I read about some squirrelly guy,
Who claims, he just don’t believe in fightin’.
An’ I wonder just how long
The rest of us can count on bein’ free.
They love our milk an’ honey,
But they preach about some other way of livin’.
When they’re runnin’ down my country, hoss,
They’re walkin’ on the fightin’ side of me.
I danced to Jerry Jeff Walker at College Station... and Willi in San Antonio.... Merle Haggard in Porterville and Eureka.... and I need more... liberal or not, that is pure country music. I wish I could see David Allen Coe... but apparently he's been corralled tambien.