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Thanks for providing me the definition. I always thought being conservative meant advocating what the Constitution and Founders wanted as defined in the first 7 articles and the first 10 amendments:

Articles I-III: clearly defined branches, with the Congress holding ALL legislative powers, the Presidency holding foreign affairs and enforcement powers, and the Judiciary resolving differences between parties regarding federal affairs.

Article IV: Equality of state’s citizens, etc.

Article V: Amending the Constitution.

Article VI-VII: Supremacy of the Constitution and Treaties, Ratification.

And of course, our modern applicable amendments:
Five Freedoms, Bearing Arms, Reasonable search and seizure, fair trials in criminal and civil cases, and the forgotten two: NATURAL RIGHTS not enumerated (#9) and the rights of the STATES and the PEOPLE (#10).

Now as bad as Mitt Romney might be in his policy decisions (his health law is admittedly costing his state MUCH more than expected, right?), I have not seen him advocating the federal government infringe upon any of the aformentioned Constitutional principles.

Hussein, on the other hand, HAS been one to advocate the eradication of these principles—most notably Amendments nine and ten...but also Amendments four and one.

I am not willing to label every endorser of Romney as someone who is not a conservative...hell, Sarah Palin endorsed John McCain for re-election in his Senate seat over the much more conservative J.D. Hayworth. Sarah isn’t a RINO...but John McCain *is* a RINO.