Of course not, it's a small fraction of conservatives, we should just disassociate ourselves from these nutjobs.
Unfortunately, there are quite a number of them within our movement. I attribute it to the anti-intellectualism that seems to pervade modern American Protestantism. Religious people tend to be conservative, so the conservative movement tends to attract large numbers of religious people. Unfortunately, a large proportion of religious people in America today are of the anti-intellectual Protestant variety, and so our movement ends up getting filled with Luddites.
Mind you, I don't believe there is any causal link between religiousity and the anti-intellectual mindset. And I recognize that there's nothing inherently anti-intellectual about Protestantism. It just so happens, for reasons unknown to me, that American Protestantism today tends to be anti-intellectual. This Protestant/anti-intellectual link seems to be recent; it doesn't seem to be present before the 1950's. And it's also uniquely American, because there isn't much evidence for it in other countries. It's a real puzzle.