He acknowledged that the professor of conservative thought didn't have to be an actual conservative, and pointed out that many teachers of French "aren't necessarily French".
"Liberals are buying liberal books, conservatives are buying conservative books," said Jeffrey M. Stonecash, a professor of political science at Syracuse University.
"Tennessee is a state that is reasonably conservative," said John G. Geer, a professor of political science at Vanderbilt University in Nashville.
"The officer corps has always been more conservative," said Richard H. Kohn, a professor of military history at the University of North Carolina.
"What goes around comes around," said Morris P. Fiorina, a senior fellow at the conservative Hoover Institution and a professor of political science at Stanford University.
"For the conservatives," said Lee Epstein, a professor of law and political science at Northwestern, "the First Amendment continues to trump other values, especially if they can help business in the process".
Arthur Caplan, a professor of bioethics and philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania, credits Dr. Jones's "conservative demeanor" as paving the way for acceptance of reproductive technology.
Michael Oakeshott (1901-90), a professor of political science at the London School of Economics, was a profound and original conservative.
John J. Pitney Jr., a professor of government at Claremont McKenna, calls him "Mr. Inside, Mr. Outside, a conservative who has good connections with liberals and Democrats".
"This is a conservative cut-off," said conference co-planner Joseph Hollowell, a professor of pediatrics at the University of Kansas Medical Center, "and it will prompt further investigation to see if there's a real problem".
Barbara Forrest, a leading critic of creationism and a professor of philosophy at Southeastern Louisiana University, said that Jindal was pandering to religious conservatives.
