Why do cons call founding fathers who believed in public education, progressive taxes, pension for the elderly

Question

taxing only the rich, "subdividing property", government work programs, labor laws, and social spending, "classical liberterians"?

Thomas Jefferson and Thomas Paine believed in those policies.

Is it because they already know no founding father who fought in the REVOLUTIONARY war could have been conservative, and therefore have to resort to making sure liberals can't make a point either?

TORY DEFINITION = LOYALIST = CONSERVATIVE

a: a member or supporter of a major British political group of the 18th and early 19th centuries favoring at first the Stuarts and later royal authority and the established church and seeking to preserve the traditional political structure and defeat parliamentary reform — compare whig b: conservative 1b
4: an American upholding the cause of the British Crown against the supporters of colonial independence during the American Revolution : loyalist
5often not capitalized : an extreme conservative especially in political and economic principles

http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=tory

Gary,

George Bush is a CONSERVATIVE Republican.

Answer 1

If you think the founding fathers would be happy with the expansive federal government we have today, they would have just started out that way in the first place. The things you're discussing were left up to the States. The only federal item specified was the military.

http://www.libertarianism.com/what-it-is.htm

Answer 2

Tories, ie, the King's Party rather then the American Party.

By the way, Bush is a moderate/progressive Republican as are all the so-called neocons. Calling him a conservative is fighting words to a conservative.

Answer 3

George Bush is a progressive republican.