Ha, the classic "I hate everything about the left, I support everything about the right, but I consider myself a leftist for no fucking reason other than not wanting to be called a conservative or a republican"

See also "I'm not racist but", "women are beautiful things" and "I totally tolerate the lgbt freaks"

I think "classical liberal" is more toward the libertarian-right. It sounds strange to us Americans who, thanks to the political climate, equate "liberal" with "leftist" rather than "libertarian."