His Conservatives are further to the right than the former Progressive Conservative Party, which governed Canada on and off until its annihilation in 1993 and which was barely distinguishable from the Liberals.
After a catastrophic defeat in 1993, the Progressive Conservative party (as it was then named) split into two rival parties, allowing the Liberals to win big majorities with just 40% of the vote.
As the commission tackled the question again, progressive and conservative bloggers joined forces to avoid regulation.
If you view the pressure of social norms as a way to restrict individual freedom, then this can easily be seen as progressive or conservative, depending on the behavior being restricted.
But it could deal a mortal blow to Mr Blair's project to form a progressive anti-Conservative coalition at national level with the Liberal Democrats, and to portray the Scottish coalition as a shining precursor.
Will the anti-Wall Street movement become the progressive version of the conservative Tea Party?
An even split between conservative and progressive judges seems to have produced deadlock.
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But I think it's important to note that the members of the Gang of Six represent in many ways progressive Democrats and very conservative Republicans.
If both parties field extremist candidates, Bloomberg could position himself as a moderate alternative, one who is both fiscally conservative and socially progressive.
"Here golf is still king, " explains spa general manager Jim Root. (Sea Island offers four golf courses on its various properties.) The current chairman of the International Spa Association (ISPA), Root joined Sea Island in 2005 from Tucson's innovative Miraval, and he admits that the move from a progressive spa environment to a conservative one has not been without its challenges.
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In Reel Two, the Feckless Progressive takes over from the Clueless Conservative and makes things much, much worse.
One side of my family is pretty conservative, the other strongly progressive.
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To be sure, we had our differences in the Vermont Republican Party, but even our more conservative leaders were in many ways progressive.
The politics of the liberal, conservative, moderate, libertarian, or progressive are ultimately measured by whether we are full of mere political theories, or whether our words turn to action for the good of mankind.
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Ms Villaran's supporters have accused the country's business elite and powerful conservative politicians of trying to oust her because of her progressive social policies.
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The Alliance is a bold effort to reshape Canada's right by merging Reform, a federal neo-conservative party of Albertan origin, with sections of the Progressive Conservatives.
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Quite frankly, I thought the program was too progressive, diverse, and well-rounded to come from a conservative organization like the Cardinals, as the marketing generally seen from teams of their ilk can be insular and without risk.
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This explains why, although the majority of Latin American cardinals are conservative, most of their papal front-runners are mildly progressive.
Meanwhile, at Rhode Island College, a conservative social work student was told he would have to lobby the government for progressive causes in which he did not believe if he wished to graduate.
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Among other things, the negotiators are trying to find a middle ground between progressive lawmakers who want the bill to include a public plan run by the government and more conservative members who say they won't vote for a measure if it includes such an option.
He leads a party that emerged only in March from a hurried merger between the western-based, socially conservative Alliance (previously the Reform Party) and the eastern rump of the more centrist Progressive Conservatives.
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And so that's where I'd have a selling job, Chuck, is trying to sell some of our party that if you are a progressive, you should be concerned about debt and deficit just as much as if you're a conservative.
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Despite all the Democratic wins in November, a sense of outrage filled the room as labor officials, environmentalists, civil rights activists, immigration reformers, and a panoply of other progressive leaders discussed the challenges facing the left and what to do to beat back the deep-pocketed conservative movement.
Mr Campbell concludes that it was more probably a lonely time, during which the grocer's daughter made a few contacts as president of the Conservative Association but may have read little and was traumatised by the snobby condescension she met from the progressive young things at Somerville College.
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