Conservatism is dead. PREPARE
While I agree with your sentiments, You are wrong to suggest that Conservatism is dead. It is the Republican Party that is dead. Conservatism has shown itself to be vigorously alive and well in both the TEA parties and Chick-Fil-A.
What is missing now (and has been missing for a long while, really) is a vehicle for Conservatism. A third party will fix that, but whether that can happen soon enough to change our direction is another thing altogether.
"PREPARE," indeed
Amen!