Even The Catholic Bishops Are Going Conservative

Two weeks ago, the United states turned from center left to center right in the 2010 elections.
Perhaps taking a clue from the voters, the Catholic bishops named Archbishop Timothy Dolan head of the United States Bishops.
From the New York Times: In a surprise move, the bishops that lead the Roman Catholic Church in the United States, elected Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan of New York to be their president on Tuesday, rejecting the conference’s more liberal vice president. It was the first time in history that the bishops had not voted to elevate the vice president to the president’s post, affirming a conservative turn among the bishops....
The vote, which was close, cements Archbishop Dolan’s prominent profile in the leadership in the American church. He is already the prelate of the nation’s most visible diocese, is comfortable in the news media spotlight and was selected by the Vatican to help conduct an investigation of the church in Ireland, which has been devastated by a sexual abuse scandal.
The bishops passed over their vice president, Bishop Gerald Kicanas of Tucson, who represents the more liberal “social justice” tradition of the American church and is known for advocating dialogue between Catholic liberals and traditionalists. Archbishop Dolan is a moderate conservative who is willing to put his affable and outgoing demeanor in service of a more assertively confrontational approach to the church’s criticshttp://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/17/us/17bishops.html?_r=1

Dolan has been a Archbishop in St. Louis, Milwaukee and now, New York. Why this man is not a Cardinal, is beyond me.
However, from the article: "Archbishop Dolan is a moderate conservative" (emphasis mine)
What the hell is a moderate conservative?