Here again, I will state my objection to using the word conservative where right wing is more appropriate.
Disenfranchising minority voters is not a conservative ideal. It is simply racist and therefore a monstrosity of the far right. Forcing women to get a vaginal ultrasound is not a conservative ideal. It is misogyny, again purely and simply based on the idea that men are so much more rational than women that they must assume the right to make decisions for them. That again is far right, not conservative.
Conservatives aren't to my personal taste in the ideals on which they base public policy, but that's what make me a Democrat and most of them Republicans. They tend to have too much respect for tradition, a trait that gives them too much tolerance for traditions that are bigoted as well as some that we really couldn't do without. This makes a typical conservative a little slow to come around treating those whom they have been traditionally oppressing as the equals that they in fact are and always have been.
The Tea Party, the Club for Growth, FreedomWorks and Heritage Action believe in a social hierarchy based on race, religion, gender and/or wealth, regardless of whether its earned or inherited. These groups give no quarter any notion of equality. Black people are poor because they are inherently lazy and stupid, not because they were brought to this country in chains to make other men wealthy and, instead of opportunities to better their and their children's position through earning wealth and passing on to their heirs, were instead the wealth that was passed on to other people's heirs. In short, a right wing partisan is one who believes in the same set of myths that justified morally indefensible crimes such as the enslavement of Africans, the mass murder of Native Americans or the beating of one's wife and the general subjugation of women. A conservative discarded such dysfunctional myths long ago, but to a right winger, these myths continue to be eternal truths.
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