He is also the first conservative to be elected in Chile since 1958.
Mr Bush, in Mr Lind's view, is the first southern conservative to be elected president since James Polk in 1844.
There is, however, a way for him to win both: by nominating a principled conservative to be his running mate.
When Mr Romney was a governor it was not yet heretical for a conservative to propose compelling citizens to buy insurance.
Democrats have used filibusters to block a handful of Bush's court picks, arguing they are too conservative to be fair judges.
On Monday former shadow home secretary David Davis became the first prominent Conservative to say he would vote against the rise.
As Cain was faltering amid accusations of sexual harrassment, Newt Gingrich was the last conservative to slingshot past Santorum, taking a lead over Romney in polls in November and December.
Jose Maria Aznar, the first fully fledged conservative to be elected to power since the death of General Franco in 1975, is an ardent centrist these days, making much of his rapport with Britain's Tony Blair.
He didn't name names and given that it is eight years since the Tories went into an election offering the option of scrapping the assembly he may have been almost the last Conservative to declare the war against devolution is over.
The eclectic group of Republicans, spanning the ideological spectrum from the most conservative to the most moderate GOP senators, assembled over concerns their leadership's approach -- to focus exclusively on the housing crisis and tax cuts -- is enough to jumpstart the economy.
"There's little merit in trying to split the vote between Ken, who's essentially running London along Labour lines, and another candidate on behalf of the Labour Party... that could ultimately run the risk of allowing a Conservative to come through the middle, " said Mr Dismore.
Everybody, all the commentators accept this, they've taken money now from Conservative councils to give it to failing Labour councils and that has forced Conservative councils to raise their council tax - in fact in one case I gather they told Conservative councils they should be raising it by over a hundred per cent.
In an energetic follow-up to Politico on his Monday morning show, Joe Scarborough said he was the first high-profile media conservative to announce that Romney is blowing a winnable election and that Limbaugh et al. followed him in defining Romney's damning new persona: a CEO who says American needs a CEO, but who is publicly failing at being CEO of his own billion-dollar campaign.
After former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney -- who had campaigned as the conservative alternative to McCain -- dropped out of the race last week, McCain tried to reassure conservative activists with a speech to their annual conference in Washington, promising to consult them on major decisions if elected president.
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Taking a more conservative stance to preserve capital should mean changing the percentages of holdings from aggressive, risky stocks to more conservative holdings, not moving everything to a single investment type.
However, a spokesperson said that no pressure was being applied to Conservative MPs to vote in a particular way.
"We want to elect conservative candidates to the House and Senate, " he added.
"I don't stand here to be the conservative alternative to Mitt Romney, " he said, prompting loud chants of support.
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"It's going to take younger conservative voters to send a message to their party elders that that message is unacceptable, " he said.
The Senate's Democratic leadership believes it now has enough Republican support to thwart a conservative attempt to stop the bill even being considered on the floor of the chamber.
His remarks were heavily criticised and led to moves by the Conservative Party to suspend him, before he resigned.
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The chancellor's recent U-turn on fuel duty provoked many claims to fatherhood, from Conservative backbenchers to The Sun newspaper via the shadow chancellor and Plaid Cymru.
This is the case that may deliver a knockout blow to business method patents, those patents that everybody from free-software zealots to conservative Republicans love to hate.
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Any hint of accounting irregularities, for which the Sarbanes-Oxley Act imposes dire penalties, causes corporate managers to freeze up and conservative investors to head for the exits.
The solution is to make a serious, conservative bid to help the poor and vulnerable.
Mr. Santorum's next challenge is to distinguish himself as a conservative alternative to Mr. Romney without turning off centrist Republicans or the independent swing voters who would help him become a viable general-election candidate in a match-up with President Barack Obama.
And as I think we described at the time, we had -- we tried to do an honest, conservative forecast to make sure that we were basing our budget numbers on sort of as close to the consensus and reasonable forecast as we can.
Since Mr. Santorum has already beaten both men in Iowa and New Hampshire, South Carolina gives him the opportunity to emerge as the principal conservative alternative to the Romney juggernaut, even as Ron Paul continues to hold his libertarian constituency and Mr. Huntsman attracts party moderates.
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They want science-based and data-driven attempts to craft small-government, conservative solutions to human-caused global warming.
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