Originally Posted by Katczinsky

Demonstrating exactly my point that placing you generally with certain schools of thought such as liberalism or conservatism is a more accurate depiction of your philosophy than your party. You can't classify all Democrats as 'liberal', and you can't classify all Republicans as 'conservative'...you can, however, classify certain individuals as one or the other.



Now I think you're generalizing and using the party hackery. Party hackery, which is used much more in controlling the ignorant and keeping the public debate within a narrow confine. Those people you listed are Republicans, but not all Republicans agree with their philosophies. Some Republicans are more conservative, and some are more neo-conservative (and many used to be almost libertarian conservative; Goldwater, etc.).

This is why such terms as conservative and liberal are used to differentiate individuals more accurately in terms of their ideologies. I consider myself socialist, and yeah I may sway more left on some issues and more right on others; but to give people a general idea of where my line of thought is coming from we have such a term as socialist.