McCain wants the Republican Party to be a party of reform, not just conservatism.
Shultz conservatism is not dour, budget-balancing conservatism.
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In Mississippi, a proposal to declare that an embryo is a person in law from the moment of fertilization did not win - a defeat for social conservatism (though of course not all social conservatives are Republican).
Denmark was one-way traffic for much of the game in favor of the Dutch, but not because of Danish conservatism.
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And yet, despite all these reservations, compassionate conservatism is not just an empty slogan aimed at making people feel warm and fuzzy.
Even so, Mr Blair's distinction between progressivism and conservatism is not clear-cut.
The suburbs located in Maryland may tend to be more liberal by comparison, but northern Virginia is certainly not a bastion of conservatism.
Compassionate conservatism has not so much vanished as lost the limelight.
So claims by those who supported the policies that led to record deficits that they are the bastions of fiscal conservatism do not meet the laugh test.
But the most striking thing about compassionate conservatism is not its effectiveness as social policy but the way in which it challenges two fundamental features of American politics.
But his attack on conservatism was not limited to Conservatives.
This is not so much compassionate conservatism as caveman conservatism.
Conservatives must be conservative, but we must also recognize that conservatism is not an ideology, but a way of approaching the world, the chief virtue of which is prudence.
Amid a week of good poll news for Huckabee, this survey will be disappointing as it shows his brand of social conservatism does not appear to be catching on with the traditionally fiscal conservative New Hampshire Republicans.
Conservatism is not (just) a process.
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To say he supports the economic status quo does not do justice to his conservatism.
Others note that uncommitted voters may want to see more of Mr Harper before they convince themselves that he does not plan to inflict social conservatism on them, as opponents have claimed.
In short, the success of the natural-rate paradigm need not have been the triumph for conservatism that it was initially.
But the Christian Democrats were not very consistent in their fiscal conservatism.
Mr Harper was not helped by the strident social conservatism of his constituents in the west of Canada, who take a very different view on such issues as homosexuality and abortion than the voters he was trying to court in Ontario.
More important, the conservatism of the delegates does not necessarily show that new Republicanism is just hypocrisy.
The promotion of Mr Willetts does not mean that his idea of civic Conservatism has been formally embraced.
Of course, by favoring one version of conservatism over another, I am not neutral in the argument.
This is not an attempt at a definitive account of conservatism.
Importantly, the marriage between conservatism and a robust federal government was not unique to the Bush presidency.
It has, for this reason, invariably been the fate of conservatism to be dragged along a path not of its own choosing.
But why not take liberalism as the default, and see conservatism as a deviation from the default that tunes up the binding dimensions?
But his deep conservatism, including opposition to divorce, was not always popular with younger Christians.
It says he is a man of the centre, not just because he makes a lot of speeches about compassionate conservatism but because he has picked someone whom conservatives loathe.
On the contrary, modesty and conservatism, as well as a certain austerity, if not asceticism, were clearly the ideals.
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