WARNING! THE FOLLOWING MESSAGE CONTAINS DETECTABLE IRONY!

> Do not doubt that there are many other conservative members of Congress, both local and national, who harbor similar views.

And don't forget those members who blew the whistle a few months back on "terror moms" and their "terror babies." And their recent claim that one of Hillary's top staffers (the wife of Anthony Weiner) is "linked" to Islamic fundamentalism. And that most Democratic Congressmen are "Communists."

> The only proper viewpoint in such cases is....

There you go again, using godless logic, which Martin Luther famously described as "a whore" ready to support any position you want.

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> I am appalled that news pundits and organizations do not make this distinction clear.

Actually, I've heard it stated again and again. But "making it clear" has no effect on the, er, voters you're talking about.

And I'll repeat what I've said for quite a while: a lot of so-called "conservatives" (including, apparently, most of the Tea Party) aren't conservatives at all. They're know-nothing populists and proud as heck of it (except they *think* they're conservatives, and that's what they're proud of).

Don't take my word for it. Read John Lukacs's "Democracy and Populism" (2005). Lukacs is a historian, a Christian, and an actual conservative who escaped the Third Reich and thinks populism, of the left and the right, is the biggest threat to civilization since Stalin and Hitler.