[donna]

Here is an interesting description of two types of conservatives. It doesn’t exactly answer your question but it is interesting.

The Long March of Newt Gingrich
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/newt/newtintwshtml/weyrich.html

[kipita]

Q: Partly because, it's been said, he didn't have a strong, guiding vision about what democracy should be in Russia. Is that to suggest that you don't believe that Newt has a guiding vision?

Weyrich: Yes, he has a guiding vision. But I think it is one which will ultimately prove to be a problem for him because it's not based in truth. It is very technologically oriented. It is very much oriented not in the Judeo-Christian principles that are the only principles that work, but in some more nebulous notions of contemporary philosophers.

Thanks. I'll assume Newt Gingrich is a West coast conservative and Weyrich is a Southern conservative.