Reply #3: There is just one overarching pricinciple that guides them today. [View All]

winning.

The Groupthinkers seem to believe politics is a football game. Society and their personal lives might be going to hell in a handbasket, but, hey, they get bragging rights when they steal elections and isn't that the most important thing to justify their affiliation?

I remember when conservatives were into keeping the government out of people's personal lives. So how to explain the Clinton Inquisition? Patriot Act?

I remember when they were tight with the people's money. So how to explain no-bid contracts to their favorite corporate charities? A billion dollars to search for non-existant WMD?

Character used to be important to conservatives. How to explain Arnold? Rush? Bill Bennett? They've become the Party of character assassinations.

No, true conservatives today are a fringe subset in the Republican Party (Pat Buchanon), the rest so-called Republicans are either criminals or mindless enablers of the criminals.