Why are Republicans called conservatives?

[Kablooie]

To steal an election and overthrow the government is one of the least conservative things anyone can do.
They've become crazy eyed, criminal radicals and are not conservatives at all any more.

[elleng]

1. The term has been misused for a long time.

[blm]

2. Real conservatives left the GOP. Pushed out by the rabid reactionaries

who gained complete control of the party and claimed the word conservative for themselves.

[SheltieLover]

3. That's not what I call them

[TomSlick]

4. Because the word that best describes them is not acceptable in polite society.

[edbermac]

5. Because they're conserving intelligent thinking.

[mzmolly]

6. For promoting the conservation of white male entitlement?

[andym]

7. Easy, they want the social culture and mores of 100-130 years ago, so are traditionalists

and they don't care if those are obtained by fraud, corruption, overthrowing elections etc. The ends have justified the means for a long time with conservatives. Think Senator Joe McCarthy-- he didn't care how many lives he ruined lying to achieve sway over the USA.

One even could claim that the secession of the South in the Civil War was an example of their rejection of legitimate election results by a group of conservatives.