The conservative leadership you refer to... is that the Boehner/Ryan/McCarthy/McConnell/McPain “conservatism”? Is that Romeny’s (sic) Severe Conservatism?
I liken Sane Conservatism to the founding principles. Our nuttiness today is from departing from them. These principles, espoused going back to the writing of the Constitution, are timeless.
Unfortunately it is hard to identify the sane ones because they either were never sane or there is some specific disease that only elected officials succumb to once elected.
Fortunately or unfortunately we are being saved from a Marxist democratic candidate by rigged democratic primary so we will face a lightly disguised Marxist.
I said when Obama was elected first time that the country had either taken on a distinct Marxist bent or we were victims of well organized vote fraud, I now think both premisses are true.