"Besides, most of those arrogant pricks are wrong."

Wrong about what?

The economy? For the last decade, the "liberal elite" argued against lax regulation and too much faith in the invisible hand of the market. You should have listened to them.

The war? "Effete liberals" and "traitors" at the new york times lead the charge to question the WMD assertion. They were right. Then, after being decried as weak for attempting to psychologize and understand terrorists, we only pulled out of the quagmire in Iraq after instituting a counterinsurgency policy that explicitly required commanders to better understand the Iraqi people.

Social policy? In the last thirty years since the cannonization of reaganomics, the rich have gotten extraordinarily richer, while real wages have not kept pace. Worse still, social mobility has plummeted from the highs of the 50's and 60's. Maybe you should have listened to the "arrogant pricks" who said otherwise.

I actually can't think of anything that has proven conservatism - especially conservatism as espoused by those who divide the country between "Real" and "elitist" america - anything other than wrong. Any suggestions?