The ROOT of the Matter - Matters!

Conserve (Verb)
1) To prevent injury, decay, waste, or loss of
2) To use or manage wisely

 

Conservator (Noun)
1) A person who conserves or preserves; preserver; protector
2) A person who repairs, restores, or maintains the condition of something
3)A guardian; a custodian

 

Conservation (Noun)
The act of conserving; prevention of injury, decay, waste, or loss; preservation:

 

Conservative (Adjective)
Predisposed to conserve; supporting the act of conservation; acting as a Conservator

 

It is probably obvious where I am going with this, so let's get started.

 

If you want to know what a true Conservative is in the political sense just look at the root and the relations:

• Prevent loss
• Protector
• Guardian
• Maintainor

Nowhere does it say anything about "turning back the clock" or any kind of related rubbish.  The truth is in the root, and in the history.

If you believe that the the pricipals upon which the Republic was founded form the core of the platform from which we have excelled as a nation for so long, then the act of protecting and conserving that foundation - being a conservator/conservative - MUST be critical to our continued success.

Progress within our Republic - by both reason and definition - lies in the extension and growth of that foundation - NEVER in its elimination!  Those who fight in opposition to the foundation of our Republic, through either blindness of ignorance or malice of intent, must be cast aside.  The resounding ring of truth, and the voices of all citizens who know that truth, must NEVER be silent, and must grow ever louder and more insistent.