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For a label for me, 'conservative' is more appropriate than 'Republican.'

Conservatism is a hard choice for a society that has become accustomed to big government and big entitlements promoted by liberals.

You know, conservatism is not a bad thing. It's not a pejorative.

There is nothing wrong with describing Conservatism as protecting the Constitution, protecting all things that limit government. Government is the enemy of liberty. Government should be very restrained.

I want the American people to understand that conservatism is an ideology of protecting the people and the people's rights.

Condemnatory conservatism isn't anything I'm interested in.

In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of 'I hate strangers and anything that's different.'

But you say you are conservative - eminently conservative - while we are revolutionary, destructive, or something of the sort. What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried?

Conservatism is not about the party, because the party is merely the shell. It is the inside - it's the filling that really means something.