What does Liberal/Conservative even mean? (Score 1)

I know many liberals that are obsessively neat and conservatives that are quite messy. However, the notion that liberal and conservative are even that distinct anymore is questionable. In a fiscal sense, there are true conservatives in office anymore- as one of our most "conservative" presidents, George W. Bush has made the largest spending increase in history and racked up the largest deficit in history. Spending wildly while cutting taxes is not conservative. Likewise, social conservatives are no better than big government liberals with their push for government intrusion into people's personal lives.