Back when I was discussing the story about members of Congress feeling insufficiently consulted by Obama’s campaign, I noted that you very rarely saw articles declaring, “Members of Congress feel their party’s nominee asks their opinion sufficiently, and coordinates enough of his decisions with them to make them feel important.”

I was reminded of that when reading this story in the Washington Post Style section, quoting several young conservatives in Washington – several of whom I think highly of — accusing the GOP of talking down to them and/or ignoring their views.

Since 2005 — and in particular, since the disastrous midterm elections of 2006 — we’ve seen a lot of discussion of what troubles conservatism and the Republican Party. I’m not the first to make these observations, but a lot of the discussion sounds a lot like, “the problem of the party is people like you, and the solution is people like me” and a variation of that argument, “what the GOP needs to do is stand for the policy proposals that are my favorite; what appeals to me is not only 100 percent certain to appeal to a majority of the electorate, but is certain to be a motivating issue for a majority of the electorate.”