I just read an amazing post on quora.com to: "Do conservatives ever become liberal?"

[raccoon]

7. This is especially good:

My husband told me that sentence (what Rumsfeld said, to the effect that you go to war with the army you have, not the one you wish you had) forced him to see that often, the conservative response to an issue shows little or no forethought or concern about the lives of the people who will be impacted most. For him it was not just a matter of the soldiers in the field—the answer illuminated a larger way of thinking about others, and not worrying about the impact of policies and decisions.