They are counting on enough conservatives to compromise their principles,
should be:
They are counting on enough self-described ‘conservatives’ to compromise their principles,
There are also well-meaning but very stupid conservatives.
For example:
Nearly every day, here on Free Republic, there are stupid conservatives who **insist** that their child's godless and socialist-entitlement K-12 school is “different”.
Every day here on Free Republic there are conservatives who can NOT understand that government K-12 schooling is a godless socialist entitlement. They continually cling the the idea that somehow this godless socialist-entitlement can be reformed if only we could go back to some magical era in government schooling.
Government schooling isn't the only issue. There are other issues in which conservatives are very stupid.