To answer you're question, you are one of the most conservative people I know based on the popular definition of conservativism from 1988. You're what I would refer to as an Alex P. Keaton conservative. You're decisions seem to be made largely on pragmatic grounds and not idealistic ones. From what I've gathered, you don't seem to be one to mingle unproven concepts and policy, in fact you seem stridently opposed to such things. Based on todays fundamentalist christian usurpage -(is that a word?) of the term "conservative", I would not place you anywhere near that camp. Perhaps you would, I wouldn't. I would however place you pretty squarely in the libertarian camp. Much of the policy makers on the right, certainly Bachmann, wear their theology on their sleeves and use those sleeves to pen policy that effects all of us. Do you think and I act that way we can tackle this one off line ;-) -no, i don't.