Does someone have to always vote Republican to be a conservative? How do you define a conservative? Someone who just blindly votes in Republicans?
How do you define "conservative"? I seriously would like to know since you are on record as pro-abortion, pro drug legalization and an outspoken animal rights adherent.
Real Conservatives, not CINOS, want many similar things. The ONLY way to get even a few of the things, that we want, there is but one way and for the time being, that is to elect Republicans. If you can only talk about Conservative positions and you do NOTHING, to get them enacted, you are only aiding and abetting Liberals.
Maybe you'll understand that, when you grow up.
Obviously you are clueless as to what has happened politically in the last 70+ years or so. Dumbocrats (with few exceptions) have defined themselves as left of center to extreme left. They are the ones who have been infiltrated by socialists and other left wing hacks (since the FDR era). They have taken up all kinds of anti traditional religious views for example promoting abortion and calling it privacy rights or seeking to bridle free markets so that they can control the social agenda of the nation. True, the first progressives found a home in the Republican Party (see TR etc) but since FDR and even before that Wilson, the left has firmly controlled the Democrats.