n0nsensical

In comparison with most self-proclaimed conservatives, you're not at all conservative. You definitely fit with the basic tenets of progressivism. This stuff has been part of the progressive movement since it began around 1900. The term fiscal conservative is pretty much meaningless anymore. Favoring a balanced budget isn't fiscal conservatism, it's sanity, but politics is insane. Fiscal conservative used to have some meaning regarding (limited) government spending, but a safety net wasn't really part of that anyway, and now none but the most radical libertarians oppose government spending during economic troubles. In any case, the term has been flogged so much by Reaganites who actually increase spending as much as they can on all of their pet causes that it has ceased to be a meaningful descriptor of political belief.

Social conservatism has, historically had, much less to do with right and wrong than with imposing specific views of right and wrong on the rest of society. Liberals don't support abortion rights because they think it IS "right." It sounds like maybe you're reluctant to come out of the "liberal closet" because the Fox News/conservative talk world has managed to stigmatize liberal views so much (I know because I've been there), and maybe you still want to believe most "conservatives" support what they say about "freedom" and "limited government", when in reality its just a bunch of doublespeak and half-truths. Oh, it's all true, but only within the bounds of their pre-determined limited worldview.

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"Prohibition will work great injury to the cause of temperance. It is a species of intemperance within itself, for it goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation, and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes. A Prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded." --Abraham Lincoln