By any estimation, blacks who embrace the conservative label are a sliver of the black population with minimal political power.

Oh, sure, Mr. Bush has a conservative label on his lapel, and in some areas he is.

Nowell was said to wear a "conservative label proudly."

Its agenda of replacing a 200-year-old secular state with a church state earns it a radical rather than conservative label.

One member "could walk around with a conservative label on his head," she said, while another soothes flaring tempers.

In fact, over in the Senate some Republicans up for election this fall are doing their best to run from the conservative label.

He seems eager to retrieve the "compassionate conservative" label and flesh it out.

How, they ask, did a lifelong Democrat - a self-described moderate who always shunned the conservative label - become so estranged from his party?

Significantly, Glass promoted street bands when other more conservative and larger labels had not.

I'll tell you my positions, and if you want to put a liberal or conservative label on it, that's fine.'