The phrase "a conservative idea" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing concepts, beliefs, or proposals that align with conservative values or principles.
Example: "The proposal to reduce government spending is often seen as a conservative idea that appeals to fiscal responsibility."
Alternatives: "a traditional notion" or "a right-leaning concept".
But it is hardly a conservative idea.
One more thing: I'm not sure whether paying hospitals for good care, instead of more care, is a conservative idea.
A conservative idea championed by liberals, it was embraced by its enemies and abandoned by its supposed beneficiaries.
Early- childhood intervention programs were not a conservative idea, but they work, and any decent party will embrace them.
But the politically feasible solution — the one that was originally a conservative idea, put into practice by the leading contender for the Republican Presidential nomination — might not be.
Back then a system based on obliging everyone to buy private health insurance was a conservative idea, and Mr Romney did a good job of working with a hostile legislature to get it passed.
Providing incentives for disabled people to go back to work in a new field is a pretty conservative idea -- one which happens to make sense.
But it isn't a big enough GOP win, much less a pure conservative idea, so there's no chance of such a bill even being brought up for a vote.
He endorsed an individual mandate to carry health insurance, which was a favored conservative idea at the time, and opposed a similar mandate for businesses, but when the state legislature made it clear that both mandates were going to have to be in any bill that passed Romney accepted that and signed with a smile on his face.
For an economy that appears to be slowing and for a stock market that may have hit unsustainable highs, this is a fairly conservative idea from Janjigian and one that could fare well even if the overall environment for equities sours.
"I'm of the opinion that this is a very conservative idea," Crowder said, The Denver Post reports.
