[Lizavetta]

Slightly off topic here, but our conservative governor has signed off on releasing close to 100 lifer inmates so far. Our former gov, Doofus Davis, released 6.

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

No, that is appropriately on-topic, given that the general conversation among conservatives for the past few weeks has been the importance of the conservative base remaining true to their beliefs and not diluting their core principles for the sake of a party-win.

It was precisely because we have been so compromising over the past 16 years that we are in the mess that we are in (the Republican party openly marginalizing its base and not only drifting toward but swimming to the left).