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By attacking the conservative vote, you do the GOP no good.

Oh, so it's his politics you hate, not his self-promoting ways. You have so damaged your own credibility,

You cooked up a nice strawman, friend - O'Rielly has nothing on you. Now let's get back to the discussion. Why do fellow conservatives slam Southerners when they are the cornerstone of the GOP vote? One look at the blue/red chart will show where the conservative stronghold lies.

I see nothing to be gained by attacking fellow conservatives. Neo, Paleo, Regular, and Decaff, we are conservatives and need to vote together. The constant riffs are brought on by outsiders with other agendas (selling books, maybe).

[Grand Old Partisan]

SB, you are one of my favorite adversaries on Free Republic since -- the book biz aside -- you do not get personal and stay on topic. Thanks!

Conservatives are indeed the cornerstone of the GOP vote, but you vastly overestimate the number of neo-Conservatives in the conservative movement. In fact, you vastly overestimate the conservativeness of neo-Confederates, who vernerate American insurgents who killed 360,000 U. S. troops and defenders of slavery -- there's nothing conservative (or venerable) about insurgents in this country killing U. S. troops in defense of a "right" to own other human beings. For every neo-Confederate it caters to, the Grand Old Party loses four or five potential Republican voters of true conservative principles.