I’ve long held the theory that if he were alive today, John Lennon would be a conservative. I’ve gotten more than a few weird looks when I floated that theory among my liberal friends.

It’s nice to be proven right:

Former Beatle John Lennon, one of the greatest icons of the 1960s peace movement, became a right-wing Republican and big fan of Ronald Reagan during the final years of his life, according to a man who worked as an assistant for Lennon and his wife Yoko Ono.

The Toronto Sun reports that Fred Seaman, who worked for the Lennons in New York from 1979 through the end of 1980, said Lennon was ashamed of his left-wing radical past and eventually became fond of arguing politics with radicals.

I try not to place too much faith in the wisdom of rock stars. But I’ve read much and watched many interviews with Lennon and came to the conclusion that he was way too intelligent to keep repeating the leftist mantra in spite of the overwhelming evidence that modern liberalism is a failure.

Lennon’s conservative would show itself even during his more radical period.