[Man50D]

This schism is not helping us.

Us? You're erroneously equating Republicanism with Conservatism. They are not one and the same.

[Mengerian]

My statement was meant in a broader context, of course. I concur that more than half of the GOP in Congress could not tell you who W.F. Buckley, Herbert Spencer, Russell Kirk, Leo Strauss, Edmund Burke, Richard Weaver, Alexis deTocqueville, Dos Passos, etc are.