I think we may have had more conservatives than ever before in 2004; however, the number of conservative voters has been decreasing ever since.
I think that the anti-Bush anti-War feelings in this country has hurt the conservative movement beyond anything since Watergate.
I fear that 2004 may prove to have been a high-water mark for the number of total conservatives in this country.
I’m not sure about that. Keep in mind two things about the 2006 election. First of all, the winning Democrats who took Republican seats were mostly “blue dog Democrats,” posing as conservatives.
Second, by that time, Bush and the RINOs in congress were already starting to offend a lot of conservatives and religious voters. I think the voters were stupid to take it out on solid conservatives like Rick Santorum, but I don’t think the reason the Dems did so well was that the electorate was less conservative. The reason was that the party was already thumbing its nose at the base.