"GALLUP: America still conservative..."

That headline and link is up over at Drudge. Gallup says that, '40% of Americans describe their views as conservative'. Ninety-nine percent of that 40% would call themselves, 'Reagan conservatives'. All Republicans - I never use the word 'conservative' when talking about wingnuts - refer to Ronald Reagan when they ignorantly claim their bona fides on conservatism.

Reagan wasn't a 'conservative' - at least certainly not a fiscal conservative. Reagan never came close to balancing a budget and in fact, he tripled our nation's debt in his eight years in office. He raised taxes 11 times on the middle class and gave us the largest tax increase in the history of our country.

Was Reagan a 'social' conservative? Not really, unless having your wife read you tarot cards every morning makes you socially conservative. Reagan didn't attend church. He was like most wingnuts I know who only talk that talk.

Would a so-called conservative sell 10,000 missiles to the Ayatollah Khomeini like Reagan did? If so, I'm glad I'm not one of those 'conservatives'.

Sure, I believe 40% of Americans think they are 'conservative'. The only problem with that is the fucking idiots don't have a clue what a real conservative is.  I'll remain a proud liberal.  We have far more ethics and we balance budgets after given a chance of digging out from the damage left by 'conservatives'.