conservative, a traditional orthodox conservative, a compassionate conservative, a neoconservative, a paleoconservative, or even a closet moderate? who knows? but i think it's important i figure this out. mr. bush himself said i don't do know once and these are no honest questions, but they are important questions. i take a stab at trying to figure it out. i don't sort of try to reinvent the wheel here. rather, i take it that the best path is perhaps to survey the scholarly landscape to see what others have to say about this, and that's essentially what i did in the paper. i categorize these other views in my own fashion. they seek to render them as possible, comprehensive, as comfortable as possible. and i do wait in in terms of what i perceived to be the pros and cons. at the end of the day i think some are better than others but i think on balance some version of political scientists, stevens -- i think that's the most intellectual leverage on this question. that's where i'm going. by way of getting there let me walk you through some of the ways our privacy of others have made sense of bush's ideolo