What, exactly, do you " like " about Howard Dean? Be specific and then, THEN, decide if you really are a Conservative at all.
I'm definitely conservative (with a libertarian bent to me on some issues). Liberal, socialist, communist ideas scare me to death. What I think is positive about Dean is the fiscal, the fact that he doesn't go for vouchers/federal government in education, the fact that he backed Bush regarding terrorists not being POW's, he's hard on illegals - I mean we've been bellyaching about this stuff for years. What I don't like are the things like MO1 pointed out, a requirement to join a union, cowtowing to internationalism, etc.
That doesn't mean that there aren't things that I like about Bush. I'll save that for another thread at this point though.