When I was in college, I was fiscally conservative. Paul Simon (I think that was his name), a former Treasure Secretary, wrote a book about deficit spending that really hit home with me. I'm still fiscally conservative, one of the many reasons I think this administration has been a massive failure (but only one reason).
Other than spending, I valued freedom and liberty. The liberals had advanced the civil rights movement, were taking down barriers based on sex, and generally were pro-person, not pro-corporation. So I rejected the big government aspect of the liberal wing, but embraced most of the rest. Who could argue against free love?
Well, now that I have daughters, I can, quite easily
And I'm offended by a lot of the crassness and crudeness that passes for entertainment in this country.
But that part of my social outlook came with age. It just seems odd to me that so many kids, who I think should experiment socially, intellectually and politically, seem so enamored of guys like Dick Cheney.