"Certainly those who claim principled conservatism as their own and don't demonstrate it open themselves up for derision...."Funny how this works, EV...
ALL conservatives who reject enlisting into the cult of the GOP's watered-down, compromised version of "principle" -- are actually deemed the lesser of "principled conservatives."
Band Of Brothers FR ain't.
It's like the GOP itself. An uneasy alliance.
But my point on this thread is that it is primarily the conservative-bashers who are threatening to further fracture the alliance.
Of course I know that you understand that.