[Krodg]

Hopefully they will research traditional conservative ideals and start there instead of following the foolish party groupies

So they can foolishly follow someone else's ideals? They already know what they stand for and they believe they are conservative.

[LTCJ]

They already know what they stand for and they believe they are conservative.

... a statement which applies equally well to LC Republicans. Which brings us full circle to the thread's title, or so I thought.

Some brands of compassion make the conservatism awfully hard to find.

[eskimo]

So they can foolishly follow someone else's ideals? They already know what they stand for and they believe they are conservative.

All political ideals are established by "someone".

Anyone can believe they are anything at all but to adopt such a belief without knowing the established history of that belief is just some emotional hysteria to which most mindless groupie types succumb.