Hey I'm damn conservative. That I support Kerry doesn't mean that I would be a leftist. There are a lot of European conservatives who support US Democrats generally and there are a lot of Republicans who I would willingly vote for like McCain, Specter, Pataki, Chafee.
So far you have yet to mention a conservative. I guess European conservatives are FAR different than in the U.S.
I take this as offensive. Even Markdel considered me, Gustaf and John F. Kennedy as conservatives! Why you consider me being non-conservative? Of course European conservatives are very different thing than American fellows, but the Republican Party is FAR much right-winger than any other major conservative party in the Western world. It's, for example, only party which is against the universal healthcare.
Don't take offense... none was intended. But re-read your response and you have answered your own question.
Did you mean my support for Kerry. Blah! I don't like him or I could NEVER vote for so leftist guy in Finnish elections, but I consider him better than Bush in many ways. Bush hasn't done a good job and he is too conservative for my cultivated European taste both socially and economically. As I said, I would vote for more moderate Republicans. George Bush 41 was a fine man, for example.
And when I said I'm conservative I meant in the European scale. In the USA I would be "a moderate".