[Jokelahoma]

Seems reasonable. I still bet within the next few weeks (if it hasn't happened already) someone on here will disagree with you and tell you that you aren't a conservative, based solely on the fact that they consider themselves to be, and you disagree with them. That's what I mean by "internalizing" the labels. The faulty logic of "I am X because I believe Y, but you don't believe Y so you cannot possibly be X" is unfortunately all too prevalent.

[dsc]

"Seems reasonable. I still bet within the next few weeks (if it hasn't happened already) someone on here will disagree with you and tell you that you aren't a conservative"

Well, it has happened that I have been called an ultra-rightist or the equivalent of the Taliban for expressing "time-tested values," but I can't recall having been called a liberal in recent years.