There are two wings of the Conservative Movement. The Culture warriors and the Traditionalists. The Culture warriors went belly up during the midterms and the Traditionalists have taken the wheel. Out with the firebreathers and in with the pragmatists. Failure doesn't get reinforced.
Standing ovation for your post!
Count me as a Traditionalist Conservative! You summed it up perfectly. I for one have had it with getting I am not a true conservative rammed down my throat. We have been in the trenches a lot longer and gone through much more then the Culture warriors have ever gone through in political campaigns. I don't want to return to the days when we didn't have enough votes to filibuster in the Senate and that is the direction the Culture Warriors were taking us.
Time to put a halt to that and it is exactly what was done in Congress in the leadership elections. We have got to reach out or we are in trouble in 2008. The CW's have proven they cannot be relied on to vote.
That remains to be seen. We lost a few traditionalists in the midterms.