[Desdemona]

Guys, umm, dating is supposed to be a screening process, right? If you don't want gals who aren't feminine don't ask them out. Long hair and long skirts are generally good indications.

If a gal is conservative, she's not going to mind you being conservative, too. If she has a problem with it, don't pursue. Just save yourself some misery and don't. One date won't kill you.

As for materialism - okay, we conservative gals like our trinkets and baubles, but more of the pearl variety. Classically elegant. Just look for that.

BTW, keep in mind that women who make an effort to look good will make efforts in other areas. And if she doesn't "put out" your chances of catching a social disease decrease.

There's possitives in all this. And if she's in favor of higher taxes for the "rich" run like the wind.

[sinkspur]

I suspect you won't have to wait very long to find the person you're looking for.

With your level-headedness, he'll find you first!

[Katya]

A friend who moved back to the DC area right before 9-11 was trying very hard to meet like minded people. She even turned to the internet, but was apprehensive at stating publicly that she was conservative. So she listed her politics as middle of the road, adn went out with some very...let's say "needy" types.

I had her rewrite her personals ad, making sure everyone knew she was looking for a right winger and not some wussy lefty. As an experiment we posted her ad without a picture....Let's just say that she's had more responses without the picture but all from seemingly great right wingers..

[Jay D. Dyson]

If a gal is conservative, she's not going to mind you being conservative, too. If she has a problem with it, don't pursue. Just save yourself some misery and don't. One date won't kill you.

Curiously enough, my wife and I never really "dated" that much before we knew we were right for each other. In fact, the first time I met my (now) wife, it was among a group of friends we had in common.

I had long since made it a point to honestly just be me, so when Marie asked me what I was doing later that day, I just smiled and said, "I'm going to down to the shooting range and make the world safe from paper targets. Join me?"

To her credit, she did. And our first "date" was me giving her lessons on how to handle a .45 ACP semi-auto handgun. (Or so she let me believe...later I learned that she was the daughter of a U.S. Marine and was no stranger to firearms.)

Bottom line: there's a lot of wisdom in the old line, "Just be yourself." Because eventually, you're going to have to be yourself with the one you choose to share your life with.

-Jay

[skinkinthegrass]

Good Points, with those pointers...monkhood not likely.

[eggfurter]

But the article does note how the liberal controlled media portrays conservative men as grunting neanderthals. And that type of brainwashing of women is one the prime reasons that they try to avoid dating conservative men.

[waterstraat]

Guys, umm, dating is supposed to be a screening process, right? If you don't want gals who aren't feminine don't ask them out. Long hair and long skirts are generally good indications.

What state are you in where (conservative, liberal, anything)women are still wearing skirts?