Are conservatives now orphans?

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This writer says --- rightly, I think --- there is no place for them in the Republican Party:

http://personalliberty.com/2012/12/10/no-room-for-conservatives-in-the-gop/

Well, they value independence, self-reliance and the like.  So let them go it alone, says I.

Reagan knew how to work with the opposition.  Compromise in those days was not a dirty word.  That's why he and Tip O'Neill got things done together.  For those on the right who have blended religion and political creed together, and for whom compromise means selling out, the only alternative is exile in the political desert.

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