I disagree. What's dying a slow death is a very particular brand of conservativism. Let me be clear: I don't get to define conservatism, nor do you, nor does Jim. It is a consensus, with some principles agreed upon. Yet, even those principles change. It is the nature of politics.
Is your conservative principle the one which says that the Constitution is the SUPREME law of the land and that government must fit within its strictures? Is THAT your principle? If so, WHY would you accept change to that BEDROCK principle? If that is NOT your bedrock, then why bother to call yourself a conservative, since you would be one of the “living document” liberals?
Conservatism IS dying and “useful idiots,” apparently not unlike yourself, are starving it, much as Terri Schaivo was starved by her murderous spouse and his equally murderous judge.