[rlmorel]

You are correct on that point, and I make it all the time, so that is a mistake on my part.

It makes them de facto wiser then, if they have truly conservative beliefs and not just “conservative political beliefs”.

[Bruce Campbells Chin]

The only reason I'm making the issue about Cawthorn is that I think too many conservatives reflectively defend anything another conservative says or does, simply because they happen to be a conservative. And I think we lose our edge if we forget about thinking clearly simply because we happen to "like" someone. It also can lead us into situations where we end up defending the very things we often criticize.

Cawthorn looks like an idiot on this because it is so easy to "bust" him. Simply ask him to name names, and when he doesn't, he looks like he just made it up because he thought the accusation alone would appeal to his constituency.