Mort Kondracke wants in on the Brooks anti-"Traditionalist" game. Add Ponnuru and a whole host of other conservative heretics to the list, and you've got a movement.

Like the others, Kondracke's article is framed solely in terms of who can win, not who has the truth. The value of an idea for Kondracke depends on whether it will make the GOP popular.

And then there's Kondracke's Brooksian contrast between "Fundamentalism" and "Pragmatism."

(As if you don't need certain fundamentals to judge what's pragmatic. A thing is only useful (pragmatic) if it leads to something good. So you have to believe something is good to be able to decide what is pragmatic. Reasons always have been and always will be prior to actions. Principles are the arche.)

This should be interesting to watch.