just some friendly joshing, bunnie brown, i can't help myself:

if you're an economic conservative and a social liberal, you're certainly not a "republican-style" person nowadays;) . these days, it's the republican party that seems to stand for pork barrel politics and large government... and unites itself mainly around keeping down different groups of people.

the republican party could use some more reasonable people like you in its leadership.

Edited to say: sorry for continuing the "hijacking"! back to the quotes