Modern conservatism could not exist without conspiracy theories.
"There will be an effort," Mitt Romney said recently, "by the, quote, vast left-wing conspiracy to work together to put out their message and attack me."
By those words, many observers thought Romney, speaking to Breitbart News, meant the press. After all, the Republican nominee is likely to face some pretty tough coverage from left-leaning outlets in the months ahead.
But Romney meant much more than the press. In fact, "vast left-wing conspiracy" refers to a set of institutions whose work helps shape the coverage that ultimately appears in the press.
That's what Breitbart questioner Larry O'Connor was trying to get...
Ann, I don't quite follow; are you saying that you place Romney as "stingy, and lofty of purpose"?
That's projection on the part of you commies. It's the left that describes its theories as "modern" or "post-modern".
Conservatives observe that people are either conservative or they're not.
There's nothing "modern" about it unless you consider ideas that were "radical" in 1789 to be "modern" today.