[pablo H]

"But there are numerous categories of people who identify themselves as conservatives. Neo-cons, paleo-cons, evangelicals, fiscal conservatives, libertarian conservatives, etc."

This is exactly the problem. Basically, liberal Republican and Libertarians, have hijacked the label "conservative" to make their minority positions more popular. They know that "conservatism" is popular with the American people and liberal/libertarian is not.

This no such thing as a "paleo-con" its just a label used by Republican liberal and moderates to marginalize people who disagree with them.

FR's mission statement is a perfect example of what is a "Conservative". If you disagree with 50% of it, you're not a 'xxx conservative' - you're a moderate or a liberal.

As Rush says, we've gotten to point where we're changing what "conservative" means, out of niceness or political expediency.

[Dog Gone]

I disagree. You can't have the attitude that anyone who disagrees with you on any issue is not a "conservative." If you think hand grendades should not be legal for private ownership and I do, I can claim that I'm a conservative and you aren't. That doesn't make my assertion correct.

All flavors of conservatism are minority positions. Very few of us agree totally on everything.