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Originally Posted by firstdown
The problem with your def is that you have conservative and the Rep as one in the same and they are not. Thats one of the reasons they lost so many seats last election is that the conservative base is ticked and wanted to make a statement. Consevatives feel that the Rep party has moved to far to the left and the party has abanded them. Also people get conservatives and the far right religous people mixed together as they may share some basic ideas main stream conservatives don't go that far to the right.
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Certainly conservative does not equal Republican, particularly today. But I think it's fair to say that there were more conservatives in the Republican Party 50 - 100 years ago than there are today.
And I agree, the 'Religious Right' are not conservatives, at least in the traditional sense, even though they like to call themselves that. I prefer to call them big-government, nanny-state authoritarian thugs.