Is “Conservatism” a dirty word? I ask because “holy cow” you would think that it is considering the political climate.

It is right now.

But that doesn't mean I do not care about the person. That is a political lie and it is offensive.

I detest labels. How can anybody's life philosophy be summed up in one word? I'm fiscally conservative, but like progress. I believe people can behave in any way they choose that doesn't impinge on the rights of another, pretty liberal. I'm not religious but appreciate and respect all faiths. So, what am I? Mainly I'm satisfied.

The movement that is often termed 'liberal' has been trying for around 50 years to push conservative values into the trash. They want to fundamentally change this country and everything it stands for. They have had many minor successes over the time they have been at this and even though they have had slow progress, it is progress (for them) but it is to the determent of all that conservatives hold dear. We must stop compromising and start pushing back. Hard.

In a constitutional libertarian (small L) with conservative leanings.

I didn't vote because, frankly, I couldn't figure out the difference between the 3rd and 4th choices.

By the way, the guy in the picture to the left of this post ... he is a very proud AMERICAN.

I'm a die-hard conservative. I attended the CPAC and had the pleasure of meeting up and getting a photo with Senator Ted Cruz this year. Small government is the way to go. The all-intrusive government we have is in EVERY aspect of our lives. You know, as military, we are supposed to keep our politics out of our duty, but it's utterly difficult to do when they control everything we do. I'm not ashamed of mentioning that I walked out of a DADT sensitivity meeting because I had it up to my Italian eyebrows with political correctness. As George Carlin once said, "political correctness is a term used by morons." How true he was. I say whatever is on my mind with no regrets.

I agree with CSM (Join to see), I am an AMERICAN above everything else. I love our constitution. I think that Conservative and Liberal are fine to describe one's way of thinking as long as that is not translated to vote republican or vote democrat. If you are conservative fine. If you are Liberal fine. I really think that we need to just get back to letting the Constitution be our guide instead of the toilet paper used by politicians. Sorry, started to rant.
The point I was trying to make is that the majority of people are not fully conservative or fully liberal. Myself, I have issues that would have conservatives calling me a left wing pinko commie bastard, and issues that would have liberals calling me a right wing baby killing nut job. The reality is I am just a person who wants to live his life under the constitution of the United States without having people trying to tell me that it can't include this or it can't include that.

Having decided to actually become an American by my own free will, and love this great country is people and Constitution, ink kidding the fact that I have lived in quite a few and been in over 60 countries my lifetime I can say The premises of the birth of this nation has no parallel to any other nation in the world. The principles by themselves, are like no other, in my humble opinion. Yet today what we face are incredibly ignorant masses, so Many bent on censoring words, thought, disregard of Bill of rights, not knowing history or what is important and a media telling unchecked facts as truths and a society hungry for useless knowledge, and personalities that we get no useful information from. So, going back to the topic, I see no problem with the word conservatism. A lot of people, mostly of the liberal or progressive mindset, see it as bad, and equate it to nazis, forgetting that nazis were socialist or from lefty persuasion. The collective good, that never gave us anything positive. 80 years, and communism still failed and some still think was great. Hope it all made sense.

Proud Conservative and constitutionalist!