Does the GOP still call itself "Conservative"?: An analysis

[AmericanErrorist]

I just read good ol' Ernest Partridge's article about the "fall of the House of Bush". In it he says...

But now the Bush gang, which perversely calls itself “conservative,”...

The question is asked: does the BFEE still call itself conservative?

I went to the RNC website and searched for "Conservative". The two most notable things I found were Chairman Gillespie remarks to the Conservative Political Action Conference, and the President's 2004 GOP Convention speech wherein he yet again states that he is "running with a compassionate conservative philosophy"...

Note that the President only uses "Conservative" with the "compassionate" qualifer, which is:

A. Supposed to stand for his moderate qualities, but utterly meaningless, except for that Schiavo business
B. Code speak for Marvin Olasky's policy presciptions. For more on Olaskyism, Read it from the man himself from Amazon.com

The fact that President Bush has to add the compassion qualifier perhaps proves that the BFEE doesn't think of itself as a "conservative" administration, even in the Reagan-Goldwater vein.