[DoughtyOne]

While I generally agree with your comments on principle, it is not a good idea to let someone pass themself off as a conservative when they're actually quite luke warm on the subject. It's the best way I know of the enable others to be luke warm, and quite comfortable in that position.

Thanks for the comments.

[Darkwolf377]

Well, let me put it this way, I only occassionally listen to or read Hewitt's comments, and when I get to some of his comments on, for example, immigration, I just move along. I don't think anyone owns the copyright on what is or is not conservatism--there are a lot of nonreligious conservatives like me, for example, and a religious person would (and have) call me a liberal just based on the fact that I don't practice a religion.

To be honest, I don't pay much attention to those writers and commentators who seem to just repeat the orthodoxy. The kinds of commentators I like to read or listen to are those who are of the opposing side, or those on my side who, while we don't see eye to eye on all things, they show me things I didn't know or examine things from a position I never thought of--Mark Steyn and Rush Limbaugh, for example.

So, back to the original point, I don't SEE the point in abandoning someone because he's not the "right" kind of conservative, though of course you and anyone else is perfectly free to do that. I just don't think it's a smart way to feed one's mind.