But it was a good conservative cause, so I went down and worked on his campaign for the last six months.

"I can continue to be a leader of the conservative cause," he said.

Later in his life, he was for conservative causes such as gun rights.

Later in life he became a Republican and supported many conservative causes.

The coming battle may be a tougher one, if only because the conservative cause is now being led in large part by women.

They continued to focus on pushing conservative political causes in Washington.

Among the Christian right, he is considered a champion of social conservative causes.

He has also been active in other socially conservative causes.

He said nothing, however, about banning abortion, a conservative cause that has cost him support.

And some of the Senator's former allies began to question whether he was still committed to conservative causes.