I really can’t believe I’m writing this, but Michael Gerson hits the nail on the head this morning. Stopped clock, and all that.

Two very revealing snapshots from CPAC yesterday.

The conservatives are trying very hard to scrape the remains of their perfected ideology off the windshield before voters recognize it. The extent to which they succeed is another catastrophe that will foul up the scene, and this country. We need to make the point as much as possible; the worst president ever, George W. Bush, was a real conservative, and succeeded in his ambition to achieve conservative principles. We are barely surviving the effects of conservatism now, if, that is, we do survive as a nation.