We're supposed to buy this from a source that wouldn't know conservatism if it bit them on the tail end

So the Los Angeles Times says that two Reagan administration judicial scholars hope the Supreme Court "comes to its senses" and ultimately gives a thumbs-up to FHer-care. Ony problem, as it turns out, is that the thinkers involved are not by any stretch pro-freedom righties. They went for the MEC in 2008, in fact.

I run into this from time to time in exchanges such as Facebook snits, when the other person involved will try to legitimize his collectivism with something along the lines of "I used to be a conservative, but the movement became so populated with cartoonish clowns and extremists (and here they mean Sarah Palin and Rush Limbaugh) that I moved away from that position." But when you do a little conversational probing, you find out they don't know a damn thing about Edmund Burke or Russell Kirk or Herbert Spencer or Whittaker Chambers.

Lame attempts to co-opt what we're about can be smelled a mile away.