If that were *really* the difference...
...Than "Conservative philosophy" would be my #2 result, and Repbulican party would be about 14 out of 10.
I think you missed a bit about restraint of personal freedom, and strict adherence to a rigid set of social behavior strictures in the Conservative Philosophy, which caused them to be farther down on my list....
jb4
"Every Repbulican who wants to defend Bush on [the expansion of Presidential powers], should be forced to say, 'I wouldn't hesitate to see President Hillary Rodham Clinton have the same authority'."
&mdash an unidentified letter writer to Newsweek on the expansion of executive powers under the Bush administration