Wednesday, January 6, 2010

What type of conservative


I stumbled upon a "*Conservative Identity Quiz"
(presuming for *American "conservatives" I suppose as other countries sometimes use terms 'conservative' or 'liberal' to mean different things politically ...)


It is a little marketing promo for a book "How to win a fight with a liberal" by Daniel Kurtzman.
I have not read the book, but I found the conservative descriptions interesting:


  • Faith-Based Fighters, also known as religious conservatives—believe in Judeo-Christian values, restoring God’s rightful place in the public square, and in showing all the unwashed and unsaved liberal sinners the path to salvation, or at least to the GOP.

  • Flag-Waving Everymen, also known as patriots—believe in freedom, apple pie, rooting for America at all times, and that God gave us a two-day weekend so we could enjoy football and NASCAR.

  • Free Marketeers, also known as a fiscal conservative—believe in free-market capitalism, tax cuts, and protecting your hard-earned cash from pick-pocketing liberal socialists.

  • Values Guardians, also known as social conservatives—believe in serving on the front lines of the culture wars to restore traditional values and protecting America against condom-dispensing, stem cell-sucking sodomites from Hollyweird.

  • Anti-government Gunslingers, also known as libertarian conservatives—believe in smaller government, states’ rights, gun rights, and that, as Reagan once said, “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help.’”

  • Freedom Crusaders, also known as neoconservatives—believe in taking the fight directly to the enemy, whether it’s terrorists abroad or the liberal terrorist appeasers at home who give them aid and comfort.

Want to find out which one you are? Click here to go take the quiz.


Come back and let me know if you found it interesting.


... Oh, you want to know which one I am?


My answers tag me as a (drumroll please...):
  • Anti-government Gunslingers, also known as libertarian conservatives—believe in smaller government, states’ rights, gun rights, and that, as Reagan once said, “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help.’
I can dig that.

4 comments:

  1. It tells me I'm a Free Marketeer. But for 2 or 3 of the questions I would have been fine with just about any of the responses. -- SCOTT

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  2. how's the snow in Kansas, Scott? hope you're stayin' warm... ta

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  3. It's still dangerously cold. The high was 6 degrees yesterday and the high today is forecast to be 11 degrees. Since the last time I posted on your blog, we got another 2-3 inches of snow. It just keeps piling up. The good news is the temperature is finally supposed to rise to above freezing by the middle of next week, so it should start melting then. I've never been so eager for the days to lenghten as they are now since the solstice. "Real" climate change that accompanies spring is only a couple of months away.

    BTW, there's both a Kansas City, Missouri and a Kansas City, Kansas. Not that it really matters, but there's a bit of a rivalry between us and I'm on the Missouri side. :-)

    Hope all is well. -- SCOTT

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  4. Funny naming a city in Missouri "Kansas City" eh? :)

    My dad was born in Missouri, but I've actually never been through there.

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