[MNJohnnie]

Easiest way to understand it. Conservatives are generally suspicious of Govt intervention in people’s lives. Therefore they tend to look for non Govt, or limited Govt solutions in dealing with problems.

Liberals or Democrats tend to believe every problem can be fixed by expanding, or creating, a Govt program.

People say “ah but what about Moral issues”. Well what about them? On both Gay Marriage and Abortion the Left wants to use the Govt to impose their view of what is correct on everyone. The Right says “Um, NO the Govt should not impose a one size fits all view on everyone on those issues”.

The reason it gets confusing is that a loud vocal portion of the “Conservative” movement aren’t really Conservatives. They are Reactionaries.

You can recognize the Reactionaries. They are the ones who oppose any change ever. They never support anything, they merely complain about everything.

[kipita]

Easiest way to understand it. Conservatives are generally suspicious of Govt intervention in people’s lives. Therefore they tend to look for non Govt, or limited Govt solutions in dealing with problems.

Liberals or Democrats tend to believe every problem can be fixed by expanding, or creating, a Govt program.

I tend to agree. In short, Liberals believe man knows more than God and should thus manage mankind and conservatives believe in individual intelligence-morality (with Judeo-Christian values) without human hierarchy.

[penowa]

"The reason it gets confusing is that a loud vocal portion of the 'Conservative' movement aren’t really Conservatives. They are Reactionaries.

You can recognize the Reactionaries. They are the ones who oppose any change ever. They never support anything, they merely complain about everything."

You certainly have some strange political definitions, but I'm not at all surprised since your main criteria to qualify for being "conservative" seems to be support for RINOs and remaining a Bush-bot.