"....most of whom probably haven't even read the book."
Much less our Constitution!!!
I commend your post - and this link is for those who want to see how the Progressives rewrote our constitution via judicial fiat and what new laws allowed what.
http://www.cato.org/event.php?eventid=2655
BTW, in my book, ANY so-called conservative that holds up criminal FDR as any kind of role model whatsoever is a blatant political hack.
Thanks, and I agree with what is said in the Cato clip; I think if many of the critics actually read what Bartlet wrote they would get a very refreshing view of what conservatism has been, and is, all about and how George W. Bush has in so many ways betrayed it. Want to talk entitlements, failure to protect our borders, reckless spending, flip-flopping for votes? Read the book! And not only that book but the polls that OVERWHELMINGLY show that Bush is NOT a conservative. I don't care about FDR or Harry Truman or Adlai Stevenson -- I care about the present BETRAYAL of conservatism! And that's about "W".