Definition of Conswervatism

Conswervative: a 'conservative' who, for the sake of personal and party electability (at all hazards) rejects Ronald Reagan's three-legged stool of conservatism based on a) free enterprise, b) strong national defense, and c) pro-family social policies.  Conswervatives have turned Reagan's stool upside down, removed two of its legs, national defense and social conservatism, and offer Americans a seat on the one upturned leg, fiscal responsibility, that they still affect to conserve.  For example, What principles were ever conserved by deviants and deviance?  Electability does not, however, account for Judge Richard Posner's conswervatism.  The writings and rulings of this most cited of America's legal scholars reveal that all he has conserved is the law of the pack--not a Judeo-Christian basis for morality and law as contemplated by the United States Constitution .