..Because, ultimately, they really aren't conservatives at all? Sounds like blackmail.
I'm not entirely conversant with the situation in the USA. In the UK, although we have been under the bloody socialists since 1997, I am very optimistic about the next general election. Rational conservatism ultimately, I believe, captures the centre as well as the political right; Blair's trick was to wrap himself in Tory clothes and capture the centre (but he's losing it now); here, at least, it is the mass at the centre of the bell curve that swings elections, not the fringes.
"Because, ultimately, they really aren't conservatives at all? Sounds like blackmail."
Post 15 is what I was responding to:
"The Creationists/ID-iots are an embarrassment - and a clear, present danger - to the Conservative Cause. The primary difference between knowledge and ignorance is that knowledge has limits."
I responded to the first sentence, which I think is totally absurd, with a what if question. Creationists make up a good percentage of conservatives and all I was saying was what if they got up and left the conservative cause. We're not going to step away from conservatism at all.