More Crazy Conservatism

It's actually becoming a bit unbelievable for me to see conservatives gradually being pushed more and more to the right--in the style of Rush Limbaugh. Of course, I've seen extremely right-wing arguments and contentions before, but does it seem to you that they are increasingly pronounced today? Is it because conservatives feel they have to be driven more to the extreme right of the political spectrum if they hope at all of rallying the troops against the new Democrat-run government? To me this seems like a fairly new phenomenon, i.e. a decade ago it seems as though the appropriate strategy at dealing with an opposition party was to pull your ideology closer to the center to attract more voters. Not away to the extremes. See the 2000 election beween George w. Bush and Al Gore for more examples of this.

This is a bit tangential. What I really want to draw attention to is this. Here is something I just stumbled upon over at Conservative Oasis, in a post titled, "Is Hypocritical Logic a Requirement to be a Liberal?":

This is the same logic behind the term “pro-choice”. We all know that one of the two choices is “kill the baby”, but that is too much truth for their purposes. It is unnerving to hear people talk about the right to choose, when it comes to a woman and abortion, then see them outside a prison protesting the death of a serial killer the next day.

First of all, I should note that this particular passage was not the subject of the article, but a mere snippet. Secondly, how could anyone reading this possibly not point out the fact that the same contention applies to conservative ideals as well--that is, how can conservatives claim to be pro-death penalty, but pro-life?

I don't want this to be a long, rambling post about the merits of pro-choice, the complete, utter uselessness of the death penalty, and the tremendous leaps of logic (and hypocritical logic!) that this author takes with this argument (maybe I'll do that later). I just wanted to point out the utter absurdity here.