Many "conservatives" from the liberal blandishments are the blue blood republicans from the Northeast corridor in the mold of Rockefeller.
These "right-wingers", as you so wrongly call them, have not "fought off the best and the brightest the blue states have to offer". Far from it...they swim in the same elitism.
Have you forgotten that these are the same "Conservatives" who thought Ronald Reagan was a light weight?
Ask for a medical leave of absence, Ann...we'll gladly approve it.
Please leave George W. Bush out of this.