Besides my other objections to the term theocon, it occurs to me that “theological conservative” (which is what I assume theocon must mean, if it is to mean anything) has generally been a term that refers to a person’s theological leanings and method and that to be theologically conservative need not directly relate to political conservatism of any stripe. Thus there are, for example, millions of Orthodox Christians in this country whose politics are decidedly non-conservative in many ways, but whose theology, so to speak, is much more “conservative” than the legions of evangelicals who tend to vote the other way. To adopt this term, or a shortened version thereof, to describe another political faction muddles this distinction without, I think, sufficiently describing the faction in question. But to each blogger his own. (I promise I will not write on something as completely ‘inside baseball’ as conservative faction labels for at least another week!)