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[Jenny A]

I have a question for anyone who'd like to answer, if I'm socially liberal and economically/fiscally conservative what does that make me?

Libertarian lite?

I sort of fit that catagory myself, but it depends on what you mean by socially liberal. If you mean hands off people's private lives, don't regulate marriage, sex, drugs, religion, etc. that's the social side of libertarian. But if you mean welfare and socialized medicine, that's liberal.

If on the fiscal side you mean small government because the government shouldn't do much of anything beyond preventing crime, providing a court system, and managing international relations that's libertarian. The more things you add to the list the more "lite" it gets. Just being free trade used to be conservative, but the Bushes seem to have replaced that with cronyism.

But whatever it is, there seem to be a lot of out here. So which is more important to you fiscal responsibility or social freedoms?