Were they really conservatives?
A majority are corporate Ho's.
In anything but a corporate since of the word? No they weren't Conservative. GOP-E is Corporate GOP owned and dictated by large money donors. It has been such since it's founding. The so called great Honest Abe himself was a puppet put in place for that agenda. It continued later during the industrial revolution when JP Morgan {the man himself} gained monetary control over our government. If the U.S. government needed money it didn't raise it. Rather it borrowed it from Morgan himself. Alas our fate we live under today. Same party same policies same tyranny with a faux name of Conservatism. Sad part is you never hear the word "Constitutional" used before it.