I doubt any conservative in the US stayed home in 2004.
In 2006, a lot of conservatives didn’t bother to vote, and it gave us Pelosi and Reid (an utter disaster).
Turnout does matter, that is why 2004 was so telling. 2006 should have been the wake up call to anyone that considers themselves a conservative sitting out an election.
No, it should have been a wake up call for the republican party to stop saddling us with lame duck liberal republicans. I, for one, will not vote for McCain who offers almost nothing for a conservative.
Boortz spent time on his daily nationally syndicated radio show pushing that action by inaction. Had the disgusting Boortz been sincere, not merely manipulating for his own ego, he would have continued his campaign to emphasize the punishment factor and what to do to change the inaction. Instead, Boortz focused entirely on the fair tax--which is a good idea but not nearly as crucial as the inaction resutls we now endure from 2006. Boortz doesn't give a hoot that his campaign has other effects outside of his pet issue of tax reform. He imagines that things can't get so bad that an election cycle can't fix it. To a real degree, he is indulging in magic thinking.
Libertarians are not the same type conservative as traditional conservatives. Libertarians motivated by selfishness noit Judeo-Christian values, and abortion is a 'rite' the selfish want as an option to maintain their lifestyles, libertarians included.
Some blame for the molasses-in-January slog we see in the nation on issues of LIFE is due to no small degree to Republican reliance on these life issues as wedge issues which the pubbies would lose if they fixed the wrongs.
Sadly, even supposed Mormon conservatives like Orrin Hatch support the exploitation of embryos for body parts (stem cells are the body parts of embryo-aged humans), because Hatch doesn't believe an embryo is a human until it is implanted in a uterus. That sort of absurdity is a hallmark of the republican vagueness we've endured for years now, in the face of growing disenfranchisement for the alive unborn even to the earliest age of embryo.