Limbaugh is less a conservative than an opportunist who uses jingoism, racism, and hyper-nationalism to sell whatever his sponsors are offering. The remnants at the National Review are callow prats compared to Buckley, who was himself a genteel racist and knee-jerk protector of the hereditarily wealthy and privileged.

I believe that there are respectable conservatives around. I am one myself on a slim few issues. The problem is that we're mostly really political eclectics, and those who want to make us subscribe to one narrow set of beliefs are snake-oil salesmen (or women!)