“As a conservative, it troubles me that we would blow this kind of an opportunity. Maybe it's not blown. But it's an act of faith at this point. President Bush knows and the rest of us don't.”
John Doolittle
“A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy”
Benjamin Disraeli
“George Bush is a conservative and most conservatives like him and support him. But most conservatives, at one level or another, are troubled by much of what they see going on in our government.”
David Keene
“To use this opportunity to re-establish some of his conservative credentials makes a lot of sense. Whether voters elsewhere are going to be paying a whole lot of attention is another question.”
Lee Miringoff
“They [conservatives] thought they were going to get somebody who would just be full-bore, unadulterated, hard-charging conservative. And this group, they are really sore [upset], they feel disillusioned, they feel despondent and some of them are livid. Now the question is, do they get over this or not?”
Charles Cook
“Harper has hugged the center. What Americans should expect is a centrist Conservative who is quite different from the conservatives they see in Washington, D.C.”
Warren Kinsella
“The natural condition of the modern conservative movement is to always be in a state of revolution. Conservatives are, by definition, uncomfortable with power.”
Craig Shirley
