"Bush was never a conservative, but Tom DeLay was one of us and he betrayed us," Richard Viguerie, a founder of the modern conservative movement, says.
For all of his talent in generating the "revolution," Newt was never the conservative ideologue the media painted him to be.
George was never a fiscal conservative.
In the video, Mr. Perry said, "George Bush was never a fiscal conservative — never was," adding, "I mean, '95, '97, '99, George Bush was spending money".
George Bush was never a fiscal conservative, never was," Mr. Perry said, then added, "I mean, '95, '97, '99, George Bush was spending money".
"Thompson was never an ideological conservative," said Lou Cannon, a biographer of Ronald Reagan who has also written about Mr. Thompson.
(He was never a real conservative, except in the liberal-hating sense, because the idea that everybody who participates in politics expects something from government was at the heart of his thinking).
Ferguson also points out the irony that Bloom, having become an instant bête noire of the left, was never a typical conservative; indeed, as a gay Jewish academic and "moderately liberal Democrat," he loathed the free market's effects on culture.
The organization was never popular among conservative political groups.
An exact body count was never ascertained but conservative estimates have placed the number to 485.
