Protecting your country is conservative, ideological fanaticism at the expense of your country is radical extremism. Pat is a conservative and the blowhards with a fat contract to spew old liberal nonsense about ideology uber alles are not conservative.
Isn't it interesting that with as much intelligence we're led to believe all these "blowhards" are supposed to have......they don't even stop to think what is the root word of the term "conservative" and what it really means.