[Texas Eagle]

“The branding of compassionate conservatism meant that the GOP was sending the wrong signal, that conservatism alone wasn’t sufficient or worse yet, was somehow flawed and had to be re-branded,” Perry wrote in his 2010 book “Fed Up.”

Amen, bro. Conservatism is by its very definition compassionate.

As much as I love Sarah Palin, I would say the same thing about her Common Sense Conservatism slogan.

Conservatism by its very nature is rooted in common sense.

[reasonisfaith]

“Conservatism by its very nature is rooted in common sense.”

Not when conservatism is distorted into a mere slogan for “We in the ruling class can run your life better than you can.”