Are you conservative or liberal?

[AllyandJack]

I'm conservative when it comes to fiscal issues. I don't believe in welfare. People need to get jobs and support themselves and their families. They need to pay into the system and contribute and not just take.

I'm liberal when it comes to other issues....gay marriage - all for it. Abortion - it's not up to me to decide who has kids and who doesn't. Does it annoy me that other people can just get pregnant and casually end it? Yep. But, it's not my place to make those decisions for other people.

Maybe I am picking and choosing? So what?

If I was forced to CHOOSE, I'd have to pick conservative. Why? I can't afford to make gay marriage/abortion my issue. Sadly, I need to look out for the best interest of my family. Thankfully, there are people out there who make those issues their focus. I can't. So, I tend to vote Republican, but I would love to find a candidate who didn't want to tax me into the stone age and didn't take it upon themselves to be the moral police.

 

[clarabelle]

Moderate leaning liberal.
I am part of the "religious left"

 

[JoyG]

I agree with ChrisFL and consider myself a moderate as well. I would be a full fledged conservative if not for abortion, gay marriage, and this "war" on terror.

I would be a full fledged liberal if not for abortion, gay marriage and this "war" on terror.

You're my exact opposite!

 

[jimmiej]

I'm one of those conservative, right-wing, evangelical Christian nut-jobs your momma told you to stay away from!

 

[Mugg Mann]

I'm one of those conservative, right-wing, evangelical Christian nut-jobs your momma told you to stay away from!

...and I'd rush you with a torch and pitchfork for that very same reason, but we both know you'd just make a quick getaway on that Segway of yours....

We gave my FIL the Segway tour as a birthday gift a few years back, and he still calls it the best present he ever got.

 

[JennyMominRI]

Liberal to moderate...

 

[Lanshark]

Moderate

 

[monarchsfan16]

Conservative

 

[eclectics]

Interesting that the split is pretty much 50/50. I know some here think I'm a tried and true liberal, but truth is, I'm not. If I had to classify myself, it would be a liberal leaning moderate. Just as an example, my views on welfare reform and the death penalty are purely conservative.

 

[joshsmom]

WOW, I'm really surprised with the results!!! I really and truly thought that one would be MUCH more dominant over the other here on the DIS. Learn something new EVERY day!!

 

[Corwin12]

Conservative

 

[BelleBoo&AmisMum]

Tree hugging, birkenstock wearing, French loving liberal and proud of it thank you very much!

 

[DisDaydreamer]

Tree hugging, birkenstock wearing, French loving liberal and proud of it thank you very much!

Tree hugging... yep. Birkenstock... nope. French loving... I love canada. Can't stand that we had the whole world's compassion after 911, but now everyone hates us. Wonder how that happened?

 

[Honu]

LIBERAL. I'd be interested to hear when exactly the democratic party declared that people should get a free ride, live off welfare and not be a productive member of society though.

It's about a hand up, not hand out.

 

[BelleBoo&AmisMum]

Tree hugging... yep. Birkenstock... nope. French loving... I love canada. Can't stand that we had the whole world's compassion after 911, but now everyone hates us. Wonder how that happened?

I only love the French because I married one I have theories on how it happened, the whole war of terror we've unleashed being the first.

 

[Disneytwinz]

Liberal

 

[lindalinda]

3 guesses

 

[Saxsoon]

3 guesses

Hmm. . . what is a conservative?

Oh no, then I guess liberal.


I put conservative, but I am open to considering both sides of the debate. I will register Republican in 2008 (only two more years, and I will vote for the first time!) but will be very open in considering the views of both parties.

 

[Liberty Belle]

Liberal (though almost moderate fiscally).