A love letter to my conservative friends By Joseph Farah

Dear beloved conservatives:

I have good news and bad news for you as you gather this week in the nation's capital for the 35th time for the nation's largest annual political meeting.

Let's start with the bad news: The conservative movement is dead.

It has, as Rush Limbaugh would say, assumed room temperature. It is deceased. It has checked out. It has departed this earthly plane. It is gone, over, completed, finished.

It died young. Conservatism as a movement was not much older than the Conservative Political Action Conference, founded in 1972. It began in earnest with the failed Barry Goldwater presidential campaign in 1964. It reached its pinnacle of power and influence during Ronald Reagan's presidency from 1980 through 1988 and was resurrected briefly in 1994 when Republicans, led by Newt Gingrich, took over both houses of Congress.

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