Hmm - better read every word before posting my .02.
My bad.
But, OTOH, if conservatives are going to profess ideas and ideals colored by what liberals are going to think about it, we're DOA right now.
Who gives a flying (insert noun) about what M. Dowd or any other mentally ill liberal thinks? That's actually half of the problem right there - trying to appeal to fools and knaves. What we need are statesmen who have the courage of their convictions, not poll readers and appeasers.
It's not the Liberals I worry about appealing to, it's the undecided's and those in the middle.