Over at National Review Online, John Derbyshire joins the axis of Sullivan and Sager and calls (with some reservations and teetering) for conservatives to throw the Republican bums out.

I’m biased toward this article because Derbyshire calls my book “indispensable.” But as with Derb’s recent recounting of his own non-religiosity, this is must reading on the state of modern conservatism.

There are no good options for conservatives this year, but the standard NR line that no matter how far off course the Republicans are we must stand by them no longer seems plausible. Will this whole debate be short-circuited if the GOP pulls it out tomorrow? I hope not. Because, as I’ve said before, even if the GOP can keep winning elections, that doesn’t mean conservatism has triumphed. In fact, given the modern GOP, it will mean exactly the opposite.