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I do not.

As I said on another thread,

But protecting and strengthening families is a very conservative tendency, and there are plenty of conservatives who weigh protecting and strengthening families more than they weigh keeping the size of government down.
That's reality. There are big government conservatives, there are small government conservatives, and there are conservatives who sometimes don't mind government involvement and other times do.

You may want to denigrate Weyrich and others such as Dr. James Dobson as 'Beltway Apologist Conservatives' and not 'American Conservatives', but you would be wrong. That is a transparent attempt by a non-conservative (you) to try to define conservatism in a self-serving manner.

Weyrich wrote an open letter calling for conservative withdrawl in 1997; then he proceeded to get hired as a lobbyist for the light-rail industry and now he is back to kissing arse in DC.

Weyrich did much good for the movement in the 70s and 80s as a Mainstream Right counter to the neocon takeover, but he no longer speaks for anybody.

I like Dobson for the most part, but he is shown himself willing to be used by the Republican Party for very little in return. Every year before the election, he talks about hos his people might stay home, and then as the election draws closer, he emerges from a meeting and declares the GOP fit to be supported. I understand that is how the game is played, he just makes it so damn obvious I wonder what he is getting out of it.

Sorry, I am a conservative radical localist. You may be a Hamiltonian Conservative, but that brand of conservatism has proven that it will rationalize anything.