Honestly, I am not sure what the best solution for the sane conservatives left. I do agree that conservative shouldn’t be a derogatory work and frankly on its surface, it’s not one to me even though I’d rather be a liberal than a conservative any day of the week. Anyhow, conservatism I think needs more intellectuals and less demagogues in the vain of Rick Santorum who actually attacked the president for suggesting that every American child should have some form of higher education. Those are the kind of issues that liberal and conservative policymakers should be united on. I don’t expect religious conservatives to embrace gay marriage overnight but I don’t think it’s unreasonable to expect them to realize that gay and lesbian Americans aren’t twisted perverts trying to attack their families and they certainly aren’t pedophiles. Just like I don’t expect them to like abortion but it would be nice if women who choose to get abortion and or use birth control weren’t viewed as some kind of whore either.