Spot on observation my friend. The people playing the "carpetbagger" flute are hypocrites...especially the carpetbagger conservatives who have compromised principles for electability and putting any RINO they can into office. Thats how you get a Jeffords or a McCain "representing" the party, much less representing conservatives. If anyone's a carpetbagger, its the former liberals who now vote (R), many of which crossed over after having some "coming to Jesus" moment politically. They are the one's destroying the party and conservatism to the point where someone like Keyes, Ron Paul, or Tancredo is considered "extremeist". You can only compromise so far. Call a spade a spade...and a former liberal a liberal...they still don't get it.
What's going on? I've been truly surprised by the anti-Keyes animus on FR tonight - mainly from folk in the "neo-con" orbit.
Yes, but wasn't Keyes once a close friend of the head of the neo-cons, Bill Kristol? Have Keyes and Kristol fallen out?