Ouch, thats a mighty hefty cliche you are wielding! For me it was the other way around, I was an ACT-voting fiscal/social conservative at 18.
I remember being very upset in 1990 when Labour lost to National. Mind you, the Labour govt then was very different to Helen's 1999 troop. By 1996 (when I was 18), I was right-wing, pro-ACT, but voted National at the election because I thought it needed all the votes it could get. 1999 was an ACT/National party/candidate split (my electorate at the time was Dunedin North, where Katherine Rich was standing for National. She is great).
I guess then I don't have a heart, but do have a brain. On your account Blunder, you have just informed us that you have neither. That's actually pretty funny, thanks for livening up my Friday! Of course, shaggy's comment made it even funnier.
Please Blunder, admit that seeing all the witty and intelligent comments by ACT members/supporters on this site has softened your hardened socialist heart just a little? (he he he)