Tom Pauken, writing in Chronicles magazine of Rockford, Ill., describes the hostility on the part of the Bush-Rove axis to real conservatives in action in Texas politics in the late 20th century — illustrative of how it is that in Washington at the top of the 21st, their act of suffocation continues, as this commentary in the same space by Samuel Francis demonstrates.

I should have been reading this stuff more closely two months ago. Bush didn’t need my vote, after all, to carry Virginia….