This primary season seems to me to have made it both more possible and more bitter. Romney isn't a solution. And Huckabee helps heighten the contradictions. After what Bush and Rove have done to conservatism, I cannot say I am surprised. Fundamentalism and conservatism may be temporary electoral allies, but as a coherent governing philosophy, they are each others' nemesis. Even a war cannot disguise that divide.
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