The values to which the conservative appeals are inevitably caricatured by the individuals designated to put them into practice.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
What used to be considered conservative values... are increasingly becoming more mainstream values.
Conservatives unwittingly side with the social forces that contribute to the destruction of traditional values.
At the end of the day, I think the most conservative principle there is, is giving people a dollar worth of value for a dollar worth of tax paid.
The avoidance of explicit ethical judgments leads political scientists to one overriding implicit value judgment - that in favor of the political status quo as it happens to prevail in any given society.
Conservatives like to talk about 'the strivers' who share what they like to think of as Conservative values. But as I found in my Blue Collar Tories research in 2012, such people no longer see the party as their natural ally.
The conservative who resists change is as valuable as the radical who proposes it.
Everyone's values are defined by what they will tolerate when it is done to others.
To me, to be a conservative means to conserve the good parts of America and to conserve our Constitution.
Unfortunately, the more chaotic the society, the greater is the desire for conservative, nonconfrontational art.
At the end of the day, every member of the conservative movement, from our political commentators and thinkers to our elected officials, share an important and common purpose in advancing the cause of liberty, reigning in a bloated federal government, and defending our traditional family values.