Neocon control: neoconservatives gained control of the Republican Party by subverting conservatives and the conservative message, but their political pillar has many cracks.

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Neocon control: neoconservatives gained control of the Republican Party by subverting conservatives and the conservative message, but their political pillar has many cracks.

Many Americans, including a growing number of political figures, claim to be conservatives. Not only do some attach this label to themselves, media operatives fasten it on a veritable parade of others, some of whom they wish to harm with the label and some of whom they seek to boost, however unworthily. But the wide-ranging views, some even contradictory, issued by these individuals should result in a good deal of head scratching. Why? Simply because, currently, there isn't any commonly accepted definition of what it means to be a "conservative."

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This identity dilemma was starkly illustrated during the recent 2011 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), the annual extravaganza sponsored by the American Conservative Union that features speakers, panelists, and exhibitors representing what is widely considered to be the veritable Who's Who of the conservative movement. For the second year in a row, CPAC found itself convulsed with controversy over including GOProud, a self-described "gay conservative" group, as a cosponsor of the three-day event. "Gay conservative"? This would have been considered an oxymoron by almost everyone just a few years ago, when the efforts of homosexual activists to force acceptance of their lifestyle were universally recognized by self-identified conservatives as a revolutionary attack on the basic moral, social, and political foundations of our society. After heated internal wrangling, the forces of "diversity" triumphed. The CPAC organizers ruled t...

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