How many Atheist are also vote Republican from time to time?

[Cephus]

Conservatism isn't clinging to any tradition, just because it is a tradition, it is picking and choosing what new ideas to adopt and what new ideas to reject, based on a rational evaluation of those ideas.

In all too many cases you can scrap the "rational" and replace it with "crony".

That isn't meant to say, the other side has necessarily the better ideas.

That describes the left every bit as much as the right.  Modern American politics is really messed up.