This was my response to someone else who asked the same question though political ideology was also added in that persons's thread. This answer should suffice:
"Conservative and liberal are actually political ideologies not political parties I am afraid to tell you. If you were going to do political ideologies you ought as well had expanded it out to include moderates as well. But I am a staunch conservative for the record. I am typically more conservative on fiscal issues, despising economic socialism almost more so than anything else in this world. I believe the freer the free-market the freer we all are as individuals. That staunch conservatism on the free-market also carries over with my view of the size and role of government. I believe in as limited a form of government as possible. I believe in the words of Henry David Thoreau who stated that the government which governs best governs least. I wholeheartedly accept and embrace that idea. On social issues, well I detest social liberalism. I believe that social liberalism perverts society through disgusting behaviors such as promotion and acceptance of drug use, violates the sanctity of marriage by trying to change it to include those of the same-sex, and their push for complete and total societal secularism makes me utterly sick. I am only moderately religious and I rarely attend church but I believe religion does have an important role in the lives of most of us, and should not be done away with. I personally would not mind if prayer was brought back in schools. I agree with conservatives on just about every single social issue with the exception of guns, and in which case I believe we need tighter restrictions to prevent the crazy people from getting them and going around and killing innocent people. Oh and I wish conservatives were more anti-nuclear. I do not like man having the power to use the very power that fuels our sun in his hands. Nuclear power is far too risky and unstable to utilize in my opinion. Of course I do not like all of that green energy stuff either. It is a big waste of money as far as I am concerned, and our government should not be subsiding it. Let the free-market deal with that while the government opens up more places for oil drilling so we can start becoming energy independent and not beholden to those Middle Eastern countries anymore.
As far as political parties are concerned I am a Republican. I think the Democratic Party is a party of liberal cowards hell bent on erasing their party's horrible and racist past, even though the liberals who control the party now are as much racist as their former Southern counterparts, by purposely keeping minorities in poverty to solidify their hold on the minority voting block. As far as what I like about the Republicans, I like that they agree with me on just about every issue. They are the party that stands with and for life, unlike the Democrats who want everyone to pay for a women's abortion whenever she wants it and no matter the stage of pregnancy. I've never gotten how Democrats are so anti-death penalty yet would op to save the life of a convicted murderer while easily taking the life of an innocent baby even when that baby clearly has a heartbeat and developed organs. Oh and I love that the Republican Party is for a Federal Marriage Amendment to try and protect marriage from same-sex activists. On economic issues they are for lower taxes, cutting tax rates like the corporate one, though my only gripe there is that they have yet to adopt a flat tax and abolish the progressive income tax system, as well as getting rid of the Federal Reserve, EPA, and Department of Education. And lets not forget they are for repealing ALL of Obamacare. That to me is the single biggest issue of the 2012 campaign for me, followed by the national debt, and jobs and the economy third. The Republicans are also the pro-American party, and believe in American exceptionalism, unlike the Democrats who go around the world apologizing for America and telling us we are not a great nation. I vote Republican because I love my nation and would rather see America strong and prosperous, and for me to be able to work for a nice paycheck as opposed to the Democrats where all you have is economic depravity (some of which is government engineered) and more people stuck on welfare. So that pretty much sums everything up."
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I am Independent. 