Much of what is now called conservatism is nothing but right-wing liberalism.
Conservatism is not opposition to homosexual marriage or abortion or premarital sex or post-modernism or socialism. It is not fundamentalism, six-day creationism, Republicanism, or even the commitment to spread democracy.
Source:
http://www.oregoncatalyst.com/index.php/archives/3045-What-Conservatism-Is-and-Isnt.html
