jveritas,
You are quite correct I did join 6 days ago and perhaps I’m not the kind of person who will thrive here. In truth in the past I have more often described myself as a Libertarian rather than conservative. In recent times I have come to realize that the two party system is so entrenched in the US election system that it was time to get off the Libertarian fence. This fact may be why you see me as a liberal as I think I’m more pragmatic in my views, I don’t do the spin or repeat meme’s. There was a post here that said the Market went up because Obama was silent, I said it wasn’t true, he spoke. There was a post here that said the new ominbus bill banned stem cell research, I said that wasn’t right, it banned money from that particular bill being spent on stem cell. If factual representations of reality make me Liberal, call me what you will. I speak truth to power even when unpopular, it’s a Libertarian principal, some habits are hard to break.
Did you want people to wrongly think Obama had banned stem cell research? Talk about taking a vital issue off the table.
The facts are always better than the spin.
Compare the Regan presidency to the Libetarian platform, you might find they are closer than the recent GOP policies.
That said, I’m in this fight now and I want to win. That will take candid, hard assessments of the facts, not more “me too”