Conservatives really don't believe in politics as the primary instrument of getting along in life and therefore don't tend to put their energy into it a way people left of center do.
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The Conservative party, the modern Conservative party, is on the side of people who want to work hard and get on.
At times, conservatives become defined by their volume rather than by their ideas.
Conservatives have a different view of a lot of issues versus our friends on the other side. The election determines how that shakes out.
When you look at all of the conservative groups in town and across the country, we all agree on the same things. Where we sometimes get into a disagreement is over the tactics to get to the endpoint.
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.
Conservatives unwittingly side with the social forces that contribute to the destruction of traditional values.
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.
When it comes to conservative social issues, it saddens me when sometimes my fellow Republicans duck and cover in the face of pressure from the left. Our loudest opponents on the left are never going to like us so let's quit trying to curry favor with them.
Conservatives have no understanding of modern capitalism. They have a distorted understanding of the traditional values they claim to defend.
Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving.
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