"Gotta disagree with you there, the number one litmus test is fiscal responsibility." - BJClinton
Here's why I disagree: a liberal, such as the former governor of Vermont Howard Dean (who balanced every state budget and pinched pennies like mad) can be fiscally responsible and pro-choice.
Conservatives aren't pro-choice. We aren't out advocating the murder of innocent little babies in their mothers' wombs.
Yet your litmus test would say: Vote for Dean, a Planned Parenthood doctor, over Bush, the only President to ever sign a federal ban on abortion.
Thus, your litmus test is woefully flawed, with all due respect.