So what is the point of this thread anyway? (apart from filling up the db)

Why a conservative "club"? This implies that the conservatives among us need some kind of a 'retreat' in order to group together for safety? Is there strength in numbers? So the conservatives feel the need to know their fellows? Maybe this needs to be a conservative 'hive', or conservative 'colony'? Are the conservative ideals and policies that fragile that a group is needed to add weight to argument? And this is the 14th instance? Well...