[oblomov]

This article resonated with me. I did not grow up in a Jewish family, but in a Democratic household where the GOP was the party of the elites and county club snobs. It was writers like Wm. F. Buckley and politicians like Newt Gingrich that got me to reconsider my political convictions. It amazes me how the cultural status occupied by each of the major parties has switched places.

I really like Adelson, and welcome him as a brother in the fight.

[Ron C.]

For much of the first half of the 1900's conservatism was largely within the Democratic Party - I was one and so was my church-going family. I changed parties when I finally realized that other Dems that I knew had been changing, simply because the party no longer supported conservatism.

By the late 50's and early 60's the split was nearly complete, but a lot of conservative democrats clung to the idea that the party could be saved with a lot of work. But, even they eventually almost all gave up and moved to the Republican party. But, there are still a few very conservative democrats who battle on, though their hopes are extremely thin.

[jjotto]

Catholic and Jewish intellectuals headed by William F. Buckley renewed the conservative movement in the 1950s. Without them, American conservatism would have become completely irrelevant like the conservative parties in Europe, which morphed into socialism lite me-tooism.

Sadly, that is where the GOP is currently headed unless the TEA Party or some other group can furnish consistent and coherent leadership.