Well sure we do. Why don't we ask Howard Dean or Skinner from DU to be Freepers and I can argue with them and have the readers make up their minds? This is a conservative discussion forum, and there is nothing conservative about equating the residents of Club Gitmo with the residents of the Hanoi Hilton.
If she is passionate about the well-being of our troops, that is a premise from which everyone should argue.
She wanted child murderers to be accorded the same honor as legitimate soldiers. Geneva protections are an honor due to a combatant who acts like a soldier. Granting them to Al-Qaeda operatives is like giving Tookie Williams a policeman's funeral. If someone wanted Tookie to have a full-honors funeral from the LAPD, would you consider that person supportive of police officers?
She is an original and articulate thinker, an asset everywhere.
Does "original thinker" include her campaign to brand George W. Bush as the foremost promoter of abortion on planet Earth? You know, it's nice and all if she said nice things on some religion threads, but her main angles in the news threads were Club Gitmo=Hanoi Hilton and Bush loves abortion. That stuff belongs at DU. There's plenty of diversity of thought on this forum without that silliness.
No, you are redefining conservatism along the lines of your own brand. Many paleoconservatives opposed the war in Iraq, and many religious conservatives do not find the GOP sufficiently pro-life. I am not going to argue for her positions, whith many of which I disagree myself, in her absence, but I am familiar with her views and it would not occur to me to label them unconservative.