the niall, anger, bargaining, depression, and moving to homage country. [laughter] it sounded like a fair description of the mood gripping many american conservatives in the wake of the 2008 election. well, have conservatives really lost their computer files? certainly evidence abounds of a political and intellectual movement in the ferment. one sign of this is the growing tendency on the right to classify conservatives into ever smaller groupings. neoconservatives, paleoconservatives, big government conservatives, leave us alone conservatives, compassionate conservatives, crunchy conservative, populist conservatives, the latest conservatives, tea party conservatives, at dinner party conservatives. [laughter] and the list goes on. another sign is the volume in vehemence of the intramural polemicizing in which some of these elements have engaged in recent years and months. a once were relatively disciplined band of brothers and sisters, or so it used to appear in the age of reagan, has seemingly thibault into a jumble of inharmonious factions. several adva