[South40]

As a Conservative I didn’t need to know anything more than that these people were breaking our laws, to know illegal immigration was wrong.
It often surprises me how some folks who think they are Conservatives, ignore this one fundamental test.

These days the word "conservative" seems to have as many meanings as does the word "Republican".

[DoughtyOne]

I haven’t studied it enough to map it out, but I believe the core of Conservatism could be as little as five to ten principles. It may be able to be boiled off to as few as three.

Thus, I have a bit of a problem with folks that state you can’t really define what Conservatism is.

This is not intended to make an inference about you, BTW.

When it comes to something as simple as obeying reasoned laws on the books, I think we can safely say that it is Conservative in nature to back law and order.

[DoughtyOne]

I should have addressed this in the prior post, but when it comes to what the Republican party stands for these days, I believe it is a morphing ideology.

As far as I can tell, it wouldn’t be unwilling to surrender on any point if it were considered to be politically expedient.

Reasoned laws on the books are thus not something that determines what the proper law and order action should be.

Instead it seems to believe laws need to be changed if supporting them would cost you votes, even if you could easily retain the votes if only you believed in the core principles of Conservatism, and defended them on point.