According to Dick Morris (who just took time from his  busy schedule to call me, personally) the nation is counting on me, as “one of the top conservatives in (my) area”.

He also bothered to note both Obama’s “socialist agenda” and his “liberalism” which is destroying America.  Of course, there’s where I started to get confused, as a) “socialism” is an entirely different political current than liberalism, and b) America is- and was founded as- a “liberal democracy”.  Sure, within a liberal democracy there is a long, long tradition of both conservative and progressive views, but my mistake might have been bothering to ponder such things, as it turns out Mr Morris is pushing a platform not dis-similar to what was, throughout the 1990’s, known generally as “neoliberalism”.  It’s all a bit confusing, even for a “top conservative” such as myself.

He also said a word or two about some new book of his that I should buy- which these guys always seem to do.

Either which way, I’m torn about whether I find these GOP push-polls that I get about once every 4-6 months entertaining and slightly informative (of their stances, not of any “truths”) or if I just find them extremely annoying.  I’m definitely very, very curious what I did that got me on their list, as almost all these calls identifies me as a “good conservative” or “active conservative” or some such.  Even when I’ve waited through the auto message and spoken to a real person (the way these polls are always set-up) and told the person on the other line under no uncertain terms that I’m either a socialist, communist, anarchist, libertarian-socialist, or (that one time) “so far to the left I’m sure you’d execute me personally if you had the chance”- they seem to insist on keeping me on their list.  That’s a well run organization, as far as I can tell.