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Isn't "common sense conservative" an oxymoron?

I can't tell you how many times I've seen or heard someone refer to themselves as a "common sense conservative." This typically makes me chuckle, because what is a "common sense conservative" exactly? Based on what hard-core conservatives typically believe, I envision such a person defining "common sense conservative" in one (or all) of the following manners: 

- "Even though guns kill over 30,000 people a year in this country, guns don't kill; people kill. I'm a common sense conservative and I approve this message."

- "No woman should be able to have an abortion at any time because abortion is murder. Also, we shouldn't provide kids with comprehensive sex education or women with contraception coverage even though these would result in fewer unwanted pregnancies and abortions. I'm a common sense conservative and I approve this message."

- "The Bible may list several different kinds of marriages as acceptable, including polygamy and rape-based marriages, but gays shouldn't be allowed to marry because the Bible says marriage is between one man and one woman. I'm a common sense conservative and I approve this message."

- "Ice caps may be melting, temperatures and water levels may be rising, and these trends have been especially prevalent since the industrial revolution, but I'm telling you, science doesn't show global-warming to be real. I'm a common sense conservative and I approve this message."

- "If we give all the money and tax-breaks to the wealthiest of people, they'll let that money trickle down to the rest of us. This is why the pay gap today is at its widest since the Great Depression. I'm a common sense conservative and I approve this message."

- "While we're trying to make it more difficult for some people to vote on election day, we're the true freedom-loving party, because we sport such slogans on our cars via bumper stickers more often than Democrats do. I'm a common sense conservative and I approve this message."
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