The conservative version of American exceptionalism has become a password of sorts for candidates who want to prove their credentials to a right-wing America.
In choosing a president, we really don't choose a Republican or Democrat, a conservative or liberal. We choose a leader.
Though claiming to represent a conservative form of Christianity, the Religious Right is politically a form of Protestant liberalism.
Last year, I co-sponsored the Highlands Conservation Act and in a bipartisan effort we passed the bill through Congress.
I don't know about liberal bias, but people of a liberal mentality are probably attracted in greater numbers to the arts than people of a conservative mentality.
Voters are hungry for principled, conservative fighters - because the threat to our liberties from Washington never has been greater.
The essence of the conservative message should be we want a dynamic nation where anybody with nothing can achieve anything.
Washington is a bubble, and there is nothing more powerful than the conservative grassroots when we are engaged and letting our voice be heard.
If you don't have an ethic of conservation, you basically have a license to drive a Hummer through the Amazon.
What type of 'person' is the for-profit corporation? A spoiled brat - all rights and no responsibilities, a traditional conservative argument would say.
I'm a conservative kind of person. I don't think rightwing is quite the same thing. But I acknowledge my conservatism of temperament.
I was a wild child. It's nice, though, now to have grown up and be normal and domestic. I've become very traditional. Conservative, worldly and very wise but fun.
My parents aren't crazy conservative. They're actually pretty open-minded. But my grandparents are, and where I'm from, East Texas, is the Bible Belt.
We've got a strong group of Republicans who are conservatives who know that their jobs aren't finished when they finish their speech.
Conservatives have a different view of a lot of issues versus our friends on the other side. The election determines how that shakes out.
Of course, there will always be, you know, conservative classical people who will judge you, but you know, who cares about them?
The Republicans I know or the conservatives I know, they disagree with what the Republicans are doing in Washington because we are compromising too much.
'Elitist' doesn't need to mean wealthy and conservative; it can also mean specialised and rarefied, and that's no bad thing.
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.
Let's stand up. Let's speak with pride about our morals and our values and redouble our effort to elect more conservative Republicans.
We can survive as a population only if we conserve, develop sustainably, and protect the world's resources.
