Our last Republican president, George W. Bush, described himself as a “compassionate conservative.” Are you suggesting he was liberal, like the Dem who followed him inot the White House?
OH, said the spider to the fly. Welcome to the trap. GWB was NOT a true conservative by any means, and his "compassionate conservative" mess was part of the proof. Any true conservative instinctively knows this term is bogus. That's not to say he didn't hold some conservative positions. He did. It's not to say that he didn't sign some conservative bills. He did. But NO, GWB was in no way, shape or form a true conservative or a movement conservative. He doesn't even understand true conservatism, not the way Reagan does or the way Rush does or Levin does. Nope. And apparently, neither do you.
Seems to me you "misunderestimated" the depth of FR's knowledge. (a little compassionate conservative lingo for you)