Oh please, spare me the patronizing civics lesson. I'm way ahead of ya. Let me know when you catch up and want to have a conversation.
Hard to have a conversation with someone who apparently doesn't know what he's talking about. You used the word "liberal" incorrectly. i.e. you intended for it to be inferred as something it isn't. It's also hard to have a conversation with someone who could be this dishonest (although I'll cut you a break and chalk it up to a simple brain fart rather than malice).
The Republican party is a liberal party. Always has been, always will be. What you, as a conservative, seek to conserve are principles of personal liberty created by liberal means. Why this should somehow fail to register with you (and you're not alone, many toss about the terms so casually and without any historical sense of what they mean)is beyond me.