I will admit to having "conservative" thoughts now and then. At least my liberal friends would consider these conservative:

Like, maybe NAFTA isn't such a bad thing. Like, maybe giving jobs to Mexicans isn't such a bad thing. Don't they deserve to have jobs as much as we do?

Like, maybe Wal-Mart isn't the devil incarnate. Like, maybe providing cheap goods isn't such a bad thing.

Like, maybe buying books online (or at a superstore like Barnes & Noble) isn't such a bad thing, even if it means some independent bookstores are going out of business. Shouldn't new technologies, new distribution systems replace the old? Suppose our great-grandparents had opposed the development of the internal-combustion engine, on the grounds that it was putting independent horse-breeders out of business. Wouldn't they look pretty silly today?

Like maybe the progressive income-tax isn't all it's cracked up to be. Don't the rich have hundreds of ways of making their income tax-exempt anyway? How do we know we wouldn't be better off wiping the slate clean and starting over with a flat tax? You could meliorate its impact on the poor by having a large standard personal exemption and abolishing all other exemptions, deductions, shelters, subsidies, deferments, rebates, vouchers, whatever. I wouldn't be surprised if the rich would end up paying more under such a system than the one we have today. (Of course, such a system would have to go hand-in-hand with other reforms such as universal free health care.)

Like maybe nuclear power can be used in a safe way.

As I say, these are all "thoughts", not dogmatic opinions.