[afuturegovernor]

Ronald Reagan was a "neo-conservative"...And Ronald Reagan was a better "conservative" than any paleocon nitwit that ever lived

Agreed, Reagan wasn't some paleo-Herbert Hoover-style conservative. Some are angry that no paleo-Warren Harding/Herbert Hoover conservatives could get elected today, but I have no problem with Reagan style neo-conservatives.

BTW, the left has the same debate, the liberal base in this country are angry at the "new Democrats" and the "Third Way" politics. They think they have been sold out and want Paul Wellstone or Ralph Nader to be president - everybody else knows it will never happen.

[hchutch]

It seems to me that the long-term advantage will go to whichever party can hold together the longest before having a massive fragmentation.

It could be that just holding on could give us an advantage in packing the courts with good conservative judges. At that point, we may be able to begin rolling back a lot of the stuff the left has done via that mechanism.