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Liberal thinking varies dramaticly from person to person, I think somewhat more than conservative thinking does. There are social liberals (abortion, race/sex relations, death penalty, crime, etc.) and economic liberals (higher taxes, more government, more social programs, etc.), and within those groups there are some very radical elements - PETA, ELF, HCI, etc. Real conservatives (as distinguished from republicans, who are little different from democrats) usually share the same point of view on a great deal of core issues and thus make a good target for focused programming like talk radio.
In addition, many liberals stances are not necessarily practical in and of themselves but as a means to an end of reaching some sort of Star Trek-esque utopian world. Since we don't really know how to do that, a lot of what has been tried so far has either failed or resulted in horrible situations like 20th century communism.
These differences have nothing to do with intelligence, they have to do with idealism vs. pragmatism. I suspect the reality of life lies somewhere in between.
As was said, however, most daytime TV talk show hosts tend to be liberals, so I don't understand what the problem is.
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