Janus delivers the long answer for how one defines a conservative.

What is a conservative? It’s a deceptively simple question. Its made complicated by the long history of conservative philosophy in America, the fact that American conservatism is different from the conservatism found in other countries, the many strains of conservatism, the self-conflicting nature of trying to balance mutually exclusive aspects of our inalienable rights, and the fact that conservative minds disagree with one another all the time. The short answer is that there is no one face of conservative ideology.

Regulation. It’s like water. Not enough and you die of thirst. To much and you drown. As a conservative, I naturally fall under the “less is more” umbrella but that doesn’t mean I think we should throw the baby out with the bathwater. Okay, I realize people are going to disagree with me on this but hear me out on this one.