David Brook's claim to fame is to link Obama's qualifications to be president with the crease in his (O's) pants.

Ben Shapiro has written a response to Brook's column. I will provide a link for your convenience to access it;

http://www.dailywire.com/news/387/nyts-conservative-columnist-conservatives-ben-shapiro

Shapiro defines Conservatism in his final paragraph, which I quote here;

"More importantly, conservatives accept democracy. But more importantly, we accept the principles that undergird democracy: principles of individual liberty and limited government that are rejected wholesale by the left. There can be no compromise on those principles. Compromise of those principles is betrayal. Thats why were at an impasse in the Republican Party: not because conservatives stand up for conservatism, but because non-conservatives insist that compromise and political nicety, rather than principle, lie at conservatisms heart."

Jim H.