Certainly those who claim principled conservatism as their own and don't demonstrate it open themselves up for derision.
But the conservative-bashers have picked it up as one of the tools they use to deride conservatives every day around here now.
That's wrong.
It is a direct attack on what FR is all about: principled conservatism.
What they are really promoting is unprincipled liberalism, or at the very least political hackdom.
"Certainly those who claim principled conservatism as their own and don't demonstrate it open themselves up for derision...."Funny how this works, EV...
ALL conservatives who reject enlisting into the cult of the GOP's watered-down, compromised version of "principle" -- are actually deemed the lesser of "principled conservatives."
Band Of Brothers FR ain't.