Perhaps Mr. Kerry, like the rest of us, is relieved to see some real compassion in this group of so-called compassionate conservatives.

The roots of fear - religious, sexual, social - seem to lie deep in American life and particularly among the so-called conservatives who dominated the Houston convention.

I don't worship at the altar of efficiency as I believe some so-called conservatives do.

During the late 1960's, claims focused on an alleged conspiracy by so-called right-wing conservatives.

The question is why did so-called conservatives on the FOX network celebrate my defeat?

Justice Scalia's views are refreshing to me - I thoroughly oppose them - compared with the posturing of so-called populist conservatives, who pretend to believe in democracy.

Our so-called conservatives, who have cut all ties to their own intellectual moorings, now espouse policies and personalities that would get them laughed out of Periclean Athens.

Today's so-called cultural conservatives are modern-day Victorians, who want people to be rich but also good - a thoroughly bourgeois idea.

There are a lot of so-called conservatives who would disagree with me on this and say that we should just let the Japanese come in and walk all over us.

This only furthers the myth of a liberal, left-leaning press that has been so successfully promulgated by so-called conservatives and the radical right.