where have all the liberals gone?

I got an email from my cousin Andy, in which he pointed out, “your  manifesto at the top strikes me as  ‘conservative’ only in comparison to the parody contemporary liberalism has become.” When I look over the list of my so-called conservative beliefs, it strikes me that Ted Kennedy’s brother Jack would in all likelihood have agreed with most, if not all, of them. Certainly none of these positions would have been anathema to the Democratic party back in the early 60’s. So I guess I’m not a conservative after all. I’m just an old-style liberal who has been deserted by my party, forced to vote Republican for lack of an alternative. Better to be a neocon than a neo-reactionary.