You can't be fiscally conservative while being socially liberal. You want liberty for yourself but refuse to share it with others.

So... you don't like spending money on social safety nets? That doesn't make you socially liberal.
That's generally what Republicans mean by that it seems like. And it goes into social issues.

They are fiscal in name only because debt goes up under Republicans

That’s the small-r republican I was raised, and originally registered. Oregon Republicans were fiscally conservative and socially aware. Reagan turned me into a Carter Republican. And when the radical wrong purged the party of moderates, I went Democrat - and have never looked back..

You, sir....are not alone. Libertarians lean towards this mind set. But I find most want less government intrusion on business matters so that commerce can exist unfettered by union demands & that is where they lose me. Who takes care of those unable to function in society? & who pays for it & how? Libertarians say sink or swim. I am a solid union woman.

I am Conservative Fiscally but Liberal on Social Issues. I like stands on both sides.

PROGRESSIVE

1. Reparations
2. Full civil rights and equality
3. Equality at work place
4. Healthcare reform
5. Strict control over capitalism
6. Full gun control, ban assault weapons, eliminate second amendment, prohibit all guns in hands of public, prohibit high power military style weapons with police, make illegal gun ownership punishable with a minimum of 25 years with no parole and make all gun manufacturers fully subject to civil suits with punitive damages by citizens, not just victims
7. Healthcare research funding
8. Eliminate religion from government and from everything that is funded by taxpayers at all levels
9. Remove religion tax exemptions
10. Make every religious worker register and require a license, CPE every year, and ethics course
11. Disallow every abuse at church to be managed inside, every abuse must be reported within 72 hours of an outcry, make special courts to speedy religious abuse trials
12. Increase tax rates above obscene CEO and executive salaries
13. Stop golden parachutes
14. Limit Medicare and social benefits after certain high net worth
15. Reduce the estate tax exemption to $3 million
16. Make laws against diplomatic, military or economic relations with dictators or governments with low human rights records
17. Withdraw all funding to Israel and Egypt ($3 billion in total)

CONSERVATIVE

1. Strong defense
2. Fiscal discipline
3. Full Congress approval each year after each country's negative imbalance
4. U.S. must be a positive trade in the net with each country
5. Eliminate all subsidies to - agriculture, auto industry, Boeing, and all else
6. Eliminate all food stamps, free hand outs
7. Totally stop all illegal immigration including asylum laws, deport every single illegal immigrant including DACA
8. Remove the right to citizenship by birth (modify United States Constitution and the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA)
9. Encourage merit based legal immigration highly
10. Deport all immigrants who create a public charge, criminal records, 2 or more mortgage failures etc.
11. Build a strong wall from sea to the shining sea with electronic mechanism to catch all crossings
12. Make helping any illegal immigrants in any shape or form a serious crime
13. Ban abortions federally with strong restrictions such as mother's life in danger, rape or incest
14. Implement voter ID laws nationally
15. Withdraw all unnecessary military bases around the world, and make the countries basing the bases pay for all expenses
16. Eliminate income tax and make a higher rate (20%) uniform consumption (sales) tax. Discontinue all state sales taxes.
17. Make military service for every 16 to 18 years old to serve for 3 years mandatory, Fake exemptions to be investigated with public complaints and prosecuted.

I am liberal of social issues, but also believe that we need to reduce the national debt -- by raising taxes on the rich and on corporations, not by cutting needed programs.

Conserving the capitalist system is a no starter. It has not proven to take care of long term needs of its citizens.

If you are a fearful and dogmatic conservative or a foolish and dogmatic liberal, you lose.

I am a sometimes angry and dogmatic progressive and have to be careful or I will lose.

Fiscal conservatism does not provide the revenue base to support a liberal social infrastructure. You want the benefits of liberalism on social issues without having to pay for them. It doesn't work that way.

Seems like a conflict to me...