As I said, pro-choice or not is not high on my list of priorities, thus Thompson’s record (other than the fiasco of CFR) is conservative to me.
I reckon beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I don’t think global warming alarmism is conservative, nor do I think being a longtime member of the Senate’s Centrist Coalition, or voting for PNTR with China, or trying to ditch the GOP platform is indicative of a conservative. To each their own.