Conservative columnist Joshua Muravchik calls Wieseltier a " liberal thinker ," and journalist George Packer calls him one of the " ideas men of the liberal intelligentsia.

Tomlinson hired Indiana consultant Frederick W. Mann, a conservative thinker previously associated with the Young America's Foundation, which has described itself as " the principal outreach organization of the Conservative Movement ".

However, Jesson, being an independent thinker, soon struck out on his own, writing a number of polemics such as Traitors to class and country: A study of the Conservative Left and publishing a journal called Te Tao ( The Spear ).

Conservative commentator Dinesh D ' Souza, for example, published the letters of gay fellow students at Dartmouth College in the campus newspaper he edited ( The Dartmouth Review ) in 1981 ; a few years later, succeeding Review editor Laura Ingraham had a meeting of a campus gay organization secretly tape-recorded, then published a transcript as part of an editorial denouncing the group as " cheerleaders for latent campus sodomites.

Daniel Larison of The American Conservative states, " Dinesh D ’ Souza has authored what may possibly be the most ridiculous piece of Obama analysis yet written.

Smith has spoken at the Conservative Political Action Conference and FreedomFest in Las Vegas along with U. S. Vice President Dick Cheney, Whole Foods CEO John Mackey, former Speaker of the U. S. House of Representatives Newt Gingrich, former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani, presidential candidate Mitt Romney, economist Art Laffer, authors Charles Murray, George Gilder, and Dinesh D ’ Souza, and Wall Street Journal editors Steven Moore, John Fund and James Taranto.

More recently, William D. Rubinstein, Professor of Modern History at Aberystwyth University, Wales, wrote that Conservative politician and pro-Zionist Leo Amery, as Assistant Secretary to the British war cabinet in 1917, was the main author of the Balfour Declaration.

One unusual link between Falwell and Conservative rabbi Arnold Resnicoff, a Navy chaplain, was created when President Ronald Reagan surprised the participants at Falwell's " Baptist Fundamentalism ' 84 " convention in Washington, D. C., by choosing to read Resnicoff's on-site report of the 1983 Beirut barracks bombing as his keynote address.

" In Letters to a Young Conservative, written as an introduction to conservative ideas for youth, D ' Souza argues that it is a blend of classical liberalism and ancient virtue, in particular, " the belief that there are moral standards in the universe and that living up to them is the best way to have a full and happy life.

D ' Souza has also criticised aspects of feminism in Letters to a Young Conservative, writing that:

D ' Souza debated Robert Spencer about Islam at the 2007 Conservative Political Action Conference and labelled Spencer an " Islamophobe ".

Conservative publications also criticized D ' Souza's theory.

He defeated Democratic mayoral candidate Abraham D. Beame, then City Comptroller, as well as National Review magazine founder William F. Buckley, Jr., who ran on the Conservative line.

* Mahzor Hadash-A Mahzor edited by two Conservative rabbis, Sidney Greenberg and Jonathan D. Levine, using gender-neutral translations, used by Conservative, non-denominational and Traditional-Egalitarian synagogues and chavurot.

Conservative commentator Robert D. Novak said, in the introduction to the 20th anniversary edition ( 1998 ) of the book, that it was one of two books that " shaped mature philosophy of politics and government.

In 1978, he became chairman of the American Conservative Union ( ACU ), a Washington, D. C. based conservative citizens ' lobby and political action group.

A member of the Conservative Party since the age of 17, he is chairman of the Board of Trustees of the D ' Oyly Carte Opera Company — which performs the operas of Gilbert and Sullivan — due to his personal financial sponsorship.

He was defeated by D ' Alton McCarthy, a maverick Conservative who opposed the extension of French-language rights and was supported by local Liberals.

* John D. Coates: Social Discontinuity in the Novels of Elizabeth Bowen: The Conservative Quest ( 1998 )

Cuellar's ratings from various groups include the following: NARAL Pro-Choice America, 50 ; National Right to Life Center, 20 ; ACLU, 67 ; Human Rights Campaign, 70 ; American Conservative Union, 12 ; Americans for Democratic Action, 80 ; Drum Major Institute, A ; Family Research Council, 29 ; Children's Defense Fund, 100 ; League of Conservation Voters, 100 ; Numbers USA, D ; American Public Health Association, 89 ; Alliance for Retired Americans, 88 ; AFL-CIO, 81 ; National Education Association, A ; AFSCME, 86 ; BIPAC, 60 ; Chamber of Commerce, 72 ; Club for Growth, 9 ; National Federation of Independent Business, 73 ; Taxes & Spending Americans for Tax Reform, 15 ; Citizens Against Government Waste, 22 ; National Taxpayers Union, 7 ; Defense and Peace Council for a Livable World, 50 ; Center for Security Policy, 50 ; Friends Committee on National Legislation, 50 ; Peace Action, 23 ; Gunowners of America, C ; Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, 0.

" D for Democracy ", " Pulling Lame " and " Far Too Canadian " are all anti-Mulroney songs, reflecting the widespread popular opposition to Mulroney among the Canadian public which led to the 1992 defeat of the Charlottetown Accord and the Progressive Conservative decimation in the Canadian federal election, 1993.

Over the last five decades, New York has elected Democratic Senators Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Robert F. Kennedy, and Hillary Rodham Clinton as well as Republican Senators Jacob K. Javits, Alfonse D ' Amato and Conservative Senator James Buckley.

Key: ( D / DFL ) Democratic / Democratic-Farmer-Labor, ( R ) Republican, ( AIP ) American Independent, ( Con ) Conservative ( NY ), ( C ) Constitution, ( G ) Green, ( GRP ) Green-Rainbow, ( IPM ) Independence Party of Minnesota, ( L ) Libertarian, ( PF ) Peace and Freedom, ( Ne ) Nebraska Party, ( Pop ) Populist Party of Maryland, ( Ref ) Reform, ( S ) Socialist, ( V ) Veterans, ( I ) Independent, ( CC ) Concerned Citizens Party, ( AI ) Alaskan Independence Party, ( LU ) Liberty Union Party, ( SW ) Socialist Workers Party

# Robert D. Wilmot, Conservative ( 1887 – 1896 )

# Frederick D. Monk, Conservative ( 1896 – 1914 )

# Robert D. Wilmot, Conservative ( 1900 – 1908 )

The Society's co-Presidents are the Speaker of the House of Commons John Bercow and the Lord Speaker Baroness D ' Souza, and the Vice-Presidents are the leaders of the Labour, Conservative and the Liberal Democrat parties.

The Conservative Administration are also criticized for initially cutting police numbers in 3 of the 16 wards ; renting out parks for exclusive private events and selling off the borough's buildings such as librarys, schools, council homes, community centres, Sure Start centres, early learning centres and youth clubs.

The opposition Conservative party criticized the awarding of the contracts to ETS, and produced a dossier listing previous problems with ETS's service.

The Reds criticized the Conservative government for its reactionary policy with reference to the peasants but, deluded in its hopes by Napoleon III, the Government counted on French support and persisted in its tactics.

Some party members criticized Harris in August 2004 for hiring David Scrymgeour, a former national director of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada and aide to Jim Flaherty, as an advisor.

The Conservative Party has criticized this decision as contrary to Turner's often-declared principle of electoral accountability to voters.

The budget was criticized by the Conservative Party for its lack of tax cuts and its increases in spending.

In a July 9, 2007 interview on Business News Network, former Conservative Alberta Premier Ralph Klein criticized Harper and Flaherty for their mishandling of the income trust issue, and for not keeping their word on income trust taxation.

Volpe criticized the Chrétien government for moving too slowly to replace Canada's aging Sea King helicopters, and encouraged the government to purchase the EH-101 Cormorant helicopters recommended by the previous Progressive Conservative government of Brian Mulroney.

Some Progressive Conservative MPPs openly criticized Baird on the latter occasion.

A centrist conservative, he has been vice-chairman of the Conservative Group for Europe, and has criticized the UK Conservative Party of leaving the European People's Party group.

The move was widely criticized, even by some members of the Progressive Conservative party.

However, Reynolds, who had strongly criticized Belinda Stronach's switch from the Conservatives to the Liberals, told a suburban Vancouver newspaper that he was " very happy " that Emerson was a Conservative and claimed that the people of Emerson's left-leaning Vancouver riding got the better end of the bargain.

This move was criticized by the opposition parties in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, both for the lack of transparency in the hiring process and for the perception that the appointment was primarily motivated by the desire to avoid having Fantino run as a Progressive Conservative candidate in the 2007 provincial election against Finance Minister Greg Sorbara.

He was criticized by the more orthodox sectors of the Colombian Liberal Party ( who considered him too unruly ), most of the Colombian Conservative Party, the leadership of the Colombian Communist Party ( who saw him as a competitor for the political affections of the masses ).

State Conservative Party chairman Michael Long criticized the creation of the school as social engineering, asking, “ Is there a different way to teach homosexuals?

Writer Bill Kauffman in The American Conservative criticized its portrayal of increasing American antisemitism, in particular among Catholics, and for the nature of its fictional portrayals of real-life characters like Lindbergh, claiming it was " bigoted and libelous of the dead ", as well as for its ending, featuring a resolution to the political situation that Kauffman considered a deus ex machina.

She later criticized the Progressive Conservative government's plans to introduce a private MRI clinic, arguing that it posed a long-term threat to public health-care.

Around this time he was criticized by leading Official National Front member Nick Griffin as being more suited to the extreme right-wing of the Conservative Party.

In 2009, British foreign secretary David Miliband has criticized Conservative Chairman Eric Pickles ' decision to secure an alliance with TB / LNNK in the ECR group " despite the fact that its members attend commemorations for the Waffen-SS ".

In 2008, the paper was criticized over publishing a controversial article quoting Calgary Conservative MP Lee Richardson on comments regarding immigrants and crime which he later stated he regretted ; clarifying he was referring only to youth gangs in the city.

The Conservative government was criticized in April and May 2007, over its handling of reports on the alleged mistreatment of prisoners captured by Canadian soldiers and turned over to local authorities in Afghanistan.

Guergis was criticized by members of the Federal Conservative Party, who felt her actions hurt the party.