Pat writes a lot of good stuff. But an awful lot of "Republicans" get their news and form their opinions entirely from Time magazine, NYT, WSJ and other such.
Just goes to show you that the left is still carving out the path. They keep leaning farther and farther left and the Republicans move to the former position the liberals held. They are still on defense, and have made so many concessions in the arena of ideas that they no longer resemble anything conservative.