[Man50D]

No he’s right. Conservative is a relative term, relative to the times and situations.

Thank you for proving my point in post #55! Going down the slippery slope by using the term "relative" creates this gray area as to what is and isn't Conservative and therefore is simply justifying any viewpoint as Conservative. By that line of thinking one could rationalize Hillary Clinton as Conservative.

[discostu]

Wow you really need to actually read what people write. READ THE POST, it’s not a slippery slope it’s historical FACT. Conservative and liberal ARE relative terms, the always HAVE BEEN and always WILL BE relative terms. No rationalization, simple reality, certain words don’t have permanent definitions, some word change with every epoch of history. Deny it if you want, but it’s the truth.

[LexBaird]

By that line of thinking one could rationalize Hillary Clinton as Conservative.

No, you can't, because when you specify a relative term, there is always either an explicit or an implicit scale. If I say "Today is cold", it is implicit that I am comparing it to the norm. Unless you specify that you are comparing Hillary to Che Guevarra or some other nontypical "norm", the assumption is for American politicians, the class to which she belongs.

Duncan Hunter is a bleeding heart liberal and radical libertine ... compared to Sheik Omar of the Taliban.