Lowry’s 2001 nondefense:

maybe Bush really is a compassionate conservative. He’s conservative on tax cuts, missile defense, and Social Security. He’s compassionate on Vieques, steel quotas, and California price caps.

I, of course, hate the phrase for the pet peevy knee-jerk reason I hate a lot of adjective cons. Conservatives buy into all that small government stuff because we believe its good and just–subsidiarity as some papists put it. “CompCon” suggestions the rest of the cons are nasty cons.