[DanaC]

Hahahah.

I went tootling around on wiki seeing how liberal and conservative were defined on there and found a few things that made me smile.

First, here's a snippet from the Liberal entry:

Liberalism, a political ideology:

Classical liberalism, a political ideology that advocates unregulated markets, limited government, rule of law, due process, and individual liberties including freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly, and others

Conservative liberalism, a variant of liberalism, combining liberal values and policies with conservative stances, or, more simply, representing the right-wing of the liberal movement

Economic liberalism, the ideological belief in organizing the economy on individualist lines, such that the greatest possible number of economic decisions are made by private individuals and not by collective institutions

Social liberalism, the belief that liberalism should include social justice and that the legitimate role of the state includes addressing issues such as unemployment, health care, education, and the expansion of civil rights

But the bit that really made me laugh was fro the Conservative entry:

In the United States, conservatism is rooted in the American Revolution and its commitment to conserve the rights and liberties of Englishmen. Most European conservatives writers do not accept American conservatism as genuine; they consider it to be a variety of liberalism.[27