[ClaytonP]

Well, like I said, I am still trying to find a single conservative in that list from post #71.

Well you can say that Bush and the Congressional Republicans during the Bush years were not conservative.

There is ample evidence to back up the assertion they were not conservative.

However, they are the public face of social conservatism and they were the ones the Evangelicals voted for. So the " true social conservatives" don't escape the blame for the damage caused by the people they voted for.

That is what the young Republicans are rebelling against.

[gusty]

The vast majority of social conservatives are good church going folk who mean nobody no harm, however the fringe just scares the hell out of most normal people. You see them on here. A discussion will be going on about the merits of small government, and some freak will start screaming with a list of deviant sexual practices that in his twisted mind us small government types some how want to foist onto civilization. They're too stupid to realize that they are handing the Left the levers of power they need to destroy themselves and unfortunately the rest of us. When you are an advocate of big government, you better have the votes to get what you want, or you're screwed.

[Olog-hai]

They were the “public face of social conservatism” only because the liberals said they were. What they actually were was a different story altogether, and they were so described by many other non-liberal media. And true social conservatives cannot accept blame for a mere image the liberals painted.