So far this year, “conservative” pundits like Stephens and others have written garbage advocating: 1) steps by the US leading to basically a new world war, either with Russia or Iran or both; 2) the elimination of borders and open immigration leading to the continuing loss of American jobs for those who live on the economic edge to begin with; 3) policies that further destroy urban black communities across the US; 4) this is true - one actually advocated the eradication of the white working class; and now, 5) the promotion and funding of a third party candidate to get Hillary Clinton elected. The latter is exactly what the “party elders” did in Virginia to Ollie North, when they funded the run of Marshall Coleman (his five percent of the vote was enough to cause North to lose by two to LBJ’s son-in-law) and when the former “senator” John Warner not only endorsed Mark Warner, the left Demo over a moderate Republican in last year’s senate race, the boob actually made a commercial for him!! If this is modern “conservatism”, I don’t want ANY part of it, in other words, I want NO part of Stephens, Kristol, Lowry and their cohorts. We don’t have a split in the party - we have a small cohort that needs to get the hell out and go home to the Clinton Democrats from whence they came.
I agree.
Conservative pundits like Stephens and others have the same problem as all Democrats and the Republican Ruling Elite (the "Uniparty"), it's ego, they can't, under any circumstances, admit when they screwed up, and they got it wrong.
Instead, they brazenly ride the hand basket to Hell, dragging everyone else with them, while shouting that the serfs must learn their lesson in Spades.
The GOPe directly led to the election of Obama when they didn't back Alan Keyes financially in 2004.
The writing was on the wall way back then on the attitude of the 'party elders'.