[JeepersFreepers]

Santorum is the ultimate faux conservative as evidenced by his endorsement of liberal Arlen Specter in the 2004 senate race against the conservative challenger Pat Toomey. (source) So it is no surprise that he would try to undermine Cruz to benefit the establishment candidate.

(Toomey turned out not to be as conservative as hoped but was light years ahead of Specter).

[HiTech RedNeck]

I say as long as folks are being connoisseurs of icons (in this case the icon is “the conservative”) they’re going to miss a lot of actual issues.

It’s better to be half right about something than not right at all. The half right solution could be transformed more easily into the entirely right solution, than a course of paralysis in doing nothing.

[HiTech RedNeck]

And this is what you get out of one dimensional analysis.

If we really like our iconic conservatives it would be well to press them to embrace everything that DOES mean something to larger America and for a good fundamental reason.

Not doing so is tempting liberals to eat your lunch.