The Republican Party actually used to have quite a few more of these thinking conservatives. Too bad so many of them decamped to the left, embarrassed by the far right evangelical, under-educated wing of the new Republican Party.
“He represents most of what is wrong with the modern neo-con movement. There will always be a chunk of the population that prefers the ease of slogans and ideology to the hard work of actual thought and problem solving.”Source: Anonymous Conservative, January 2009
The wingnuts are in reference to Hannity, not to the anonymous conservative.