Liberals and conservatives are more alike than they'd like to admit... I've always been partial to Nietzsche's damnation of Liberal as another word for mediocrity and conservative as another word for adventitious liar.

"Almost every party grasps that it is in the interest of its own self-preservation that the opposing party should not decay in strength; the same is true of grand politics. A new creation, the new Reich for instance, has more need of enemies that friends: only in opposition does it feel itself necessary, only in opposition does it become necessary...."

Friedrich Nietzsche
Twilight of the Idols (Check!)

I prefer to call myself a Pragmatist.