No national conservative ever will. When the black man used an illegal automatic weapon in New York to slaughter whites in what he declared was a hate crime, no one argued that gun laws could have stopped that hate crime. But liberals used it shamelessly, and one of the white victims' wives got herself elected to congress on a gun control platform. Those laws would not have stopped there being an illegal weapon in the crack house the boy lived in, but that made no difference at all. No conservative will ever get excited and furious about the shameless leftist use of tragedy to push their political program, though that program admittedly has no relation to the tragedy.
Conservatives are pathetic, because liberals select their leaders.
Respectable conservatives can always be counted on to miss the point. I often express frustration in these pages over the fact that conservatives simply never get their arguments right. To some, this may sound pedantic, or it may sound like I am simply a political expert who is unduly concerned with details. What I am saying repeatedly here is that the whole mental process of conservatives is off base. You simply cannot deal with the real world unless you understand what the real questions are.