Lest conservatives be too proud, it's worth recalling that conservatism's rise was decisively enabled by liberalism's weakness.

Surely this is a pick from weakness. ... What are the prospects for holding solid GOP majorities in Congress in 2006 if conservatives are demoralized?

Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.

Conservative policies have on the whole worked - insofar as any set of policies can be said to 'work' in the real world. Conservatives of the Reagan-Bush-Gingrich-Bush years have a fair amount to be proud of.

Liberalism is financed by the dividends from Conservatism.

Since Ronald Reagan's election in 1980, conservatives of various sorts, and conservatisms of various stripes, have generally been in the ascendancy. And a good thing, too! Conservatives have been right more often than not - and more often than liberals - about most of the important issues of the day.