What Conservatives Are Really Conserving Is Open-Mindedness

<![CDATA[Conservatism has always gotten a bad rap, and it has been misunderstood on one of its strongest and most defining characteristics, which is its inherent open-mindedness. This has always been evident in its reverence for life itself, for free speech, for representative government, for self-governance and fair electoral processes, for its trust in the marketplace of ideas and of goods and services, and for its faith in the very practice of faith, each according to his or her own conscience. ]]>