There is nothing wrong with being conservative or liberal. It's when either one takes it to a direction that not acceptable to a society that was built on religion. The problem is that liberals have taken God out of the very premise that this country was founded on and the reason why the pilgrims wanted to come to the new land.
It was the God of Abraham but somewhere it became a free choice of which god you believe in. That's okay too. But the original intent of the Declaration of Independance has long since been forgotten.
Excerpt :
When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by.
If you read it in it's enterity it doesn't sound like our country anymore.
The politicians have forgotten what their jobs are.
It's their job to provide us the people the taxpayers with sound judgment. Liberals are usually so interested in being politically correct that bad laws come from it.
Case and point Infanticide.
The events of Wednesday, March 12, 2003, in Springfield are suddenly looming large in the U.S. presidential race.
On that day, Barack Obama, then a Democratic state senator from Chicago, convened a meeting of the Health and Human Services Committee, which he chaired.
On the agenda was Senate Bill 1082—one of 16 pieces of legislation introduced between 2001 and 2005 in the General Assembly related to the so-called born-alive issue. The idea, promoted by foes of abortion, was to confer the rights of personhood upon any fetus expelled or extracted from the womb if that fetus was capable of breathing or voluntary motion, or if it had a heartbeat.
It was similar to a federal "born-alive" bill that had passed the U.S. Congress with overwhelming support and was signed into law the previous year. But there was a key difference. As introduced by Urbana Republican Rick Winkel, SB 1082 lacked the flowery "neutrality language" that had been added to the federal bill to reassure abortion-rights supporters that the bill had nothing to do with that issue.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chicago/chi-zorn_21aug21,0,6556075.column
If you in your heart believe that someone that believes in this is acceptable then by all means vote for them. This is an example of being liberal. Can you imagine a baby taking 3 days to die?
About 50% will abort in the first three days, about 80% of patients by the next day, and only about 5% of patients will need a surgical abortion.
http://www.emedicinehealth.com/abortion/page5_em.htm
or sucking the brains from a fetus until it's dead.
That doesn't mean conservatives don't mess up, but they do respect life.
I myself could not let a baby just lay there until it dies.
pictures of development I don't care how small if it can grow arms and legs in a months time then it is alive and it does feel pain.
http://menshealth.about.com/library/blfetus.htm
Just this issue alone prevents me from being liberal.