[Admin Moderator]

I believe that to be a conservative you have to be in favor of stoning gays and shooting Mexican men and women at the border

That is a very strange belief. That isn't what conservatism is about, nor is it what this website is about. Thanks, AM

[patriciaruth]

This is my ironic way of noting what the difference between me and the aggressive purist conservatives seem to be. I know there are many, probably most conservatives, who don't believe like this, but they are not often the ones on these threads calling for the disembowelment of Republicans, and at the moment I am clarifying why I would never dare call myself conservative in the company of people such as these.

I am a Republican and a Christian, and that often gives me common cause with conservatives, but I don't pretend to be a purist conservative because they have defined themselves in ways that I cannot.