text: how come almost every time a person criticizes conservatives in here, they are accused of being a democrat? that just wack. liberal (the american sense of the word- not in the european economic sense of the word) and conservative are ideologies. democrat and republican are the parties that make up our two party system. a democrat can be conservative (dixiecrats) and a republican can be liberal. and i in no way am a democrat. i am not registered as one and do not plan to. i have no connection to the two corporate parties and their paymasters. i am a socialist and vote in that manner in almost all elections. and i also occasionally vote libertarian. so any reply like, "clinton was a draft dodger or a aldulterer, etc." has nothing to do with an argument concerning political philosophy and does not concern me. i am concerned with the issue at large and not the horserace between the two parties. i am not concerned with their consultants, their public relations campaigns, their focus groups, their sound bites, etc. ideas are of my concern. well good because we're close to being on the same page because when someone starts bashing conservatives the first thing i think is communist but i just try to be polite and call them democrat.  i would like to point out that this works both ways.