Kim, I don't know what a "conservative" is. A lot of my views are what, in normal times, would probably be called "conservative." But I eschew such terminology these days. When today's self-proclaimed "conservatives" sit complacently by and watch the Constitution being run through the shredder rather than becoming outraged and speaking out to preserve it as a true conservative would, I can hardly call them "conservatives." There are other, far less polite terms I could use. "Hypocrites" is one of them.

Benjamin Disraeli once commented "I regard myself as a fiscal conservative, but a social liberal." That more or less describes my position (no, to an intelligent person, the two are not inconsistent). He made another comment which I seem to find applicable these days: "I know what to expect from my enemies. It is my friends who confound me!"

Don Firth