re: #326 Obdicut

Can you come up with any examples where this has happened?

Not sure what you mean. Do you mean cases other than the word “conservative”?

I think that today, if you describe yourself in the US as “conservative”, that means that you are likely to agree with the politics of Bachmann, Romney, Gingrich, Perry, Palin and the rest of the comedy troupe. That is what the term has come to mean.

There are some people who describe themselves as “conservative” and don’t agree with those politics, but at this point they need to state that in order to avoid confusion, as in “I describe myself as conservative but will never vote for a GOP politician again.”