As I said on another thread,
But protecting and strengthening families is a very conservative tendency, and there are plenty of conservatives who weigh protecting and strengthening families more than they weigh keeping the size of government down.You may want to denigrate Weyrich and others such as Dr. James Dobson as 'Beltway Apologist Conservatives' and not 'American Conservatives', but you would be wrong. That is a transparent attempt by a non-conservative (you) to try to define conservatism in a self-serving manner.That's reality. There are big government conservatives, there are small government conservatives, and there are conservatives who sometimes don't mind government involvement and other times do.