Untenable

I've already outed myself as a single-issue voter on the subject of evolution and tried to ascertain where the P08 candidates stand on it.  But Digby has done a much better job at polling the leading lights of contemporary conservativism to see where they stand, and the results are simultaneously amusing and sad.  Most of them have drunk the Kool-Aid.  To sum it up:

All of these people are obviously professional GOP whores and have a huge personal interest in trying to thread the wingnut. Some are willing to buck the base straightforwardly, notably Krauthammer, who went to medical school, but as I wrote when I first posted on this, the discomfort and dissonance is palpable among most of these people:

What do you suppose it's like to be intellectually held hostage by people who you know for a fact are dead wrong on something? It must be excruciating.

I suspect this is the biggest problem with conservatism today. As Atrios says, you have to buy the whole worldview (or at least be willing to publicly whore for it) in order to truly be part of the movement and that is becoming untenable.