Andrew Sullivan wrote a fantastic article on his decision to leave the Conservative Right in The Atlantic. Here is an excerpt:

•  I cannot support a movement that claims to believe in limited government but backed an unlimited domestic and foreign policy presidency that assumed illegal, extra-constitutional dictatorial powers until forced by the system to return to the rule of law.
  
• I cannot support a movement that exploded spending and borrowing and blames its successor for the debt.
• I cannot support a movement that so abandoned government's minimal and vital role to police markets and address natural disasters that it gave us Katrina and the financial meltdown of 2008.
  
• I cannot support a movement that holds torture as a core value.
  
• I cannot support a movement that holds that purely religious doctrine should govern civil political decisions and that uses the sacredness of religious faith for the pursuit of worldly power.
  
• I cannot support a movement that is deeply homophobic, cynically deploys fear of homosexuals to win votes, and gives off such a racist vibe that its share of the minority vote remains pitiful.
  
• I cannot support a movement which has no real respect for the institutions of government and is prepared to use any tactic and any means to fight political warfare rather than conduct a political conversation.
  
• I cannot support a movement that sees permanent war as compatible with liberal democratic norms and limited government.
  
• I cannot support a movement that criminalizes private behavior in the war on drugs.
  

Good thoughts...