“While I don’t doubt Melissa’s sincerity, I think what she misses here are the facts which seem to establish that that the conservative/libertarian ‘alliance’ is really just a marriage of temporary convenience. For better or worse, victory for conservatives means victory for Republicans. You can make distinctions between small-government fiscal conservatives and ‘Big Government Republicans’ all you want, but the truth of the matter is that conservatives cannot succeed unless the Republican Party as a whole succeeds, and that means allying with and often voting with ‘Big Government Republicans.’” (09/01/10)