I lived in the Neewark Archdiocese and was confirmed by Cardinal McCarrick, and never once have I heard someone say he was fairly conservative. Maybe not as explicitly liberal as some, but mostly liberl. Bishop Wuerl will be a great improvement.
Thanks for the information! As I said, he was "conservative" by the standards of a time that was used to the likes of "Bishop Ken" and Rembert Weakland (just typing his name makes me snicker).