You have a negative social score and an econ score less than +3. You're not a red meat con. You're center-left.
Please, your ignorance is showing.
I think you have a very high view of the extent of European welfare. Obviously this varies from country to country, but in most places the welfare benefits really aren0t much more generous than in the US--though unemployment benefits are. Yes, all major political parties in Europe support universal health care, but most don't support government controlled hospitals--many countries in Europe have social insurance systems, not NHS-type ones.
Actually read the Tory or Fianna Fail manifestos from the latest elections and see that the difference is hugely inflated. There aren't may American style conservatives, but that's because most European conservatives don't care about social issues, and so conservative parties are formed of different coalitions than in the US. Also, I really don't think a typical American conservative only has a +3 economic score.
This is the Truth.
There are two main reason why people perceive a huge difference:
1) The Importance of Social Issue in the US is mostly due to the very strong influence of Christianity and that the two wars didn't have huge impact on American culture that they had on Continental Europe for obvious reasons, which helped greatly to discredit previously prevailing ideologies. That due to the French Revolution, etc there was a long history of anticlerical liberalism on the Continent.
2) Republican Rhetoric on "small government" which for historic reasons doesn't sell well in Europe (look under: Great Depression; Reactions of Governments and also in a way point #1). However the reality and the rhetoric are somewhat different from each other, as the case of the last eight years has shown very clearly.
