You're right, Rap: Conservative has been usurped to mean tight-fisted, mean spirited, "I got mine, to Hell With You," no change is a good change attitude toward life. That's no more what "conservative" means than the current use of Liberal means in relation to any dictionary definition. I've always been fiscally conservative, and I think of conservative as being judicious in judgement and not rushing hastily into activities. I am pretty "conservative" in some areas of religion, and wildly "liberal" in others. All of these words have been seriously compromised to make simplistic slogans that obfuscate complex issues and set people against each other.

And where are all them "compassionate Conservatives?"

Jerry