"You will know a tree by the fruit it bears".
When someone claims to be fiscally conservative, but they raise spending and borrow via bonds for operational expenses, they are not fiscally conservative. They are now down on two counts.
One for being liberal, and one for lying.
At the risk of nitpicking, some might argue that, technically speaking, that is only one count inasmuch as the liberal subsumes the liar. One count.