Selwyn Duke gets it!
FUHGETTABOUTIT Rudy....... Conservatives don't vote for liberals!
To the best of my knowledge:
- No pro-abortion candidate has ever won the Republican nomination.
- Nobody who has been in bed with the homosexual lobby has ever won the Republican nomination.
- Nobody who has opposed Second Amendment rights has ever won the Republican nomination.
That might be true, but many of the pitchfork and torch crowd on FR these days are hardly conservatives. They're extremists. There's no other word for it. They are extreme in their viewpoints, extreme in their language, extreme in their emotions, extreme in their viciousness. They aren't conservatives, because they defame everything that is decent and honorable about conservatism. The only "values" they honor are scorn, hatred, and character assassination. These are the same people who said the most vile things about Pres. Bush in the run-up to the '04 re-election campaign. They are extremists -- the most vile elements of our culture, and I see no distinction between them and the extreme leftists.
Your narrow litmus test about Political ideology appears to have a foundation in truth. It would seem that Conservatives dont vote PERIOD! (unless the person is a pure Conservative). The stay at home all conservative or nothing crowd gave the Democrats both houses of congress.
Of course, it didnt help that the folks that were running by and large were spineless RINOs.