Much of what is now called conservatism is nothing but right-wing liberalism. Conservatism is not opposition to homosexual marriage or abortion or premarital sex or post-modernism or socialism. It is not fundamentalism, six-day creationism, Republicanism, or even the commitment to spread democracy. Conservatism is not reactionary—it is traditional, but not for tradition’s own sake.
Defining conservatism
"Conservatism is not essentially a polemic: it is first an exposition, a meta-narrative of existence based upon actual lived experience and common practice."