That’s the question Fred Thompson is going to be asking his rivals. Thompson can, I think, legitimately claim to have the most consistently conservative record of any of the top four candidates. But this back-to-the-revolution tactic illustrates how trying to win a primary makes candidates do things that aren’t helpful in winning the general election. I know that a lot of conservatives believe that Republicans will come back if they recapture the ardor of 1994, but there is plenty of evidence that the country is not where it was back then.