The old left/right approach is insufficient to account for today's political spectrum.
As I see it, the this topics value is that it is exploring the pre "today's political spectrum" definition of conservative.
Somewhere else I posted links to the Conservapedia articles on "paleoconservative" and "neoconservative". For anyone interested, I leave it to you to track said down.
Regardless of the general low opinion about things C-pedia, looking at their perspective of conservatism should have value. As I recall, the C-pedia articles were positive for paleocon and negative for neocon. Seemingly, they did not include Reagan, Bush 1, or Bush 2 as being neocons.
But please try to focus on traditional conservatism.
Moose
ps: I previously started another "Conservative" topic. Maybe I'll track it down and bump it.
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