Nonsense, those people never claimed to be conservative Republicans -- instead, they were "kinder & gentler" or "compassionate".
Sure, Romney claimed to be "severe", but that was only in comparison to Massachusetts Democrats!
By stark contrast, Levin, Shapiro and D'Souza are all out fighting the good conservative Republican fight.
Of course you hate them, because you're not one, you're a GD Democrat -- Southern Democrat, Dixie-crat, God-knows-what-crat, but in to true sense a Republican.
ek_hornbeck: "They're every politically correct liberal's version of what an acceptable "conservative" should be like: they may disagree with the Democrats on an issue or two here and there, but they're completely non-threatening to the liberal order."
Right, which is why when a truly conservative Republican, like a Ronald Reagan or Donald Trump, comes along, he wipes the floor with those "moderate" brown-nosers.
But in every Donald Trump rally speech I've watched, he reminds his followers early on that we are the party of Lincoln.
And Lincoln was the ultimate Republican disrupter, threatening to your old GD Democrat order.