Being Conservative also used to mean fiscal responsibility, less Government Interference, and States Rights over Federal. Odd, I am a progressive and I believe in these things far more than the Conservatives.

Major examples: George W Bush has run up the highest deficit in U.S. History, an absolutely unsustainable amount that has already crippled and killed Americans and will mostl likely plunge this country in a massive recession. The Patriot Act is the greates give away of individual rights in American History. Guarantees that Americans thought they had under the Bill of Rights are now ignored and will. The Feds believe in states right, but only on their terms...the States can vote for assisted suicide, gay marriage, medicinal marijuana, but then the Federal Government just stamps on these and imposes their own laws.

The Hypocrisy of Conservativism in this country is staggering.