If the GOP embraces gay marriage, global warming hysteria (a convenient "truth" for the statist Left), or open borders, I'm out.
By the way, Reagan commissioned the Meese commission that attempted to restrict pornography, was strongly pro-life, and never advocated the queer agenda as when he was in the White House. Reagan and his interior secretary James Watt bravely stood up to environmental hysteria.
Much like John Dean's nonsense, Finn is making up a conservatism/Republicanism that never was and then disingenously saying that the GOP left them.
I love NR but I'm not sure why they decided to publish this bilge.
I simply can't take seriously any of these 'the GOP has left me' people if they don't at least admit that the Culture War was started by the Left, and made so bitter by the use of Courts to impose what can't be won through the proper and legitimate democratic channels. If you want to say conservatives have made mistakes, then fine, but if you can't even bring yourself to correctly place the blame on those who truly started the fight, then you might as well be a member of Moveon or the ACLU.
As to National Review, I will defend them by saying that they will usually allow some other writer to come in and respond when ever someone is spouting such nonsense. Immigration is an example, as they've had several running debates between those holding conservative views on immigration and those who hold liberal views, but who like to pretend those views are somehow conservative. So I wouldn't be surprised if someone posts a response to it. It is surely needed.
So, whatever its faults, at least NR is better than The Weekly Standard, which as far as I can tell gives no voice to conservatives on immigration.