Hunter at DailyKos is one of the reporters attending CPAC (Conservative Political Action Conference), and notes that the traditional hot-button social issues like abortion and gay marriage seem to be deliberately downplayed. More here.
It is suddenly quite clear why the current conservative movement is obsessed with taxes and deficits to the near-exclusion of all other topics: those are the only topics they can agree on. Those are always the consistent applause lines, while muddling along into anything else is treated tepidly unless it is spectacularly generic. Freedom? Yes, Freedom Good. Specify what kind of freedom you might mean, however, and unless it is about taxes or cutting the government you are likely to start a fight.
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