[The_Rorschach]

"if i take jesus' preaching to heart and turn the other cheek i'm a liberal. . ."

No. . .That would make you a Funde, and by association, a Conservative. . . not that it matters in the end. The Conservative movement as we know it today should really be called something else, they don't rate the legacy they recieve by association. Spoke with my Dad last night, I was feeling him out on commentators like Scarborough, Hannity, Carlson and O'Reilly. He thought O-Reilly was too soft on homosexuality, only to discover I was softer still on the issue, which naturally developed into a rather lengthy and heated argument.

Goldwater was a true Conservative, in my opinion, and many of his social views were fairly liberal. For instance, he believed that one's sexuality, homo or hetero, should not be a factor of consideration when enlisting to serve one's country. Furthermore, he saw it was a constitutional right for one to lead such a lifestyle. Just as abortion should be an issue decided upon state by state, and not at a federal level.

I guess the point of this post is simply to re-enforce Kevin's statement that despite one's political tendancy, they are not the physical manifestation of their party ideaology. People are people, and should be judged on an individual basis. To ask why Conservatives believe Liberals should be skewed is to commit the same flaw in logic as the man whom reputedly said all Liberals should be impaled upon rusted steel.