It is one of the truisms of politics that a conservative is often enough a former liberal who has been 'mugged by reality.'
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
If a conservative is a liberal who's been mugged, a liberal is a conservative who's been arrested.
It has become more acceptable to describe yourself as a conservative, but not everyone who uses that term about themselves really is truly conservative.
A conservative is someone who believes in reform. But not now.
Conservatives used to believe in confronting hard truths, not succumbing to comforting fairy tales. Some still do.
At times, conservatives become defined by their volume rather than by their ideas.
Conservatives, despite their increasingly powerful presence on cable TV and talk radio, feel excluded and disregarded by the longstanding preponderance of liberal voices on public television.
A conservative is a fellow who thinks a rich man should have a square deal.
A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead.
Reality has a well-known liberal bias.
A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.