[ScratInTheHat]

Heck, the Republicans need to read it as badly as the Dems. Have you read some of the idiotic comments here lately?

I agree

But then again how many conservatives even claim to be republican now?

The Bush, Lott, Graham, etc. line of thought lost me a while back. It's like getting that bag of nuts (no pun intended here, well maybe a little LOL) and as you eat them you hit so many that are bad you just toss the whole pack away.

We just need a new bag of nuts! (OK the pun boomeranged on me and I couldn't resist LOL)

[logician2u]

But then again how many conservatives even claim to be republican now?

Did you mean for that to be phrased the other way around, i.e., how many Republicans claim to be conservative?

Offhand, I'd guess there's more of them than there were a few years ago. Whether that means anything is open to debate, though, since "conservative" has come to mean "Bushbot" to much of the world at large.