...but if you gave the Conservative voters a flyer saying all of the "hidden meaning" stuff you just wrote, they would welcome it and promote it as a positive agenda.  They might think it was written by Rick Perry.  You are uncovering the ugly ulterior truth about this movement, presumably to scare us about Texas, and the ugly details are part of the blissful utopia they want!

"America is not a Democracy."  Damn right.

"The rich should rule over the poor.  Now you're talking."

"We need corporal punishment.  America is a Christian country with no need to teach science.  Sickness and poverty are a lack of faith in God.  Conservatism should not be criticized or questioned."  Amen.

BTW, incidentally, your point about the embrace of myth is the thing which singularly defines the Conservative movement, and is the most crucial part of your post.  Conservatives don't believe in Reagan's record, they believe in the myth of Reagan's record.  They don't believe in the intentions of the Founding Fathers, they believe in the Conservative myth of the intentions of the Founding Fathers.  And Biblical teachings are not (as you incorrectly mentioned) taken literally, the Conservative myths about the Bible are taken "literally".  ; Which is why Jesus is now a freedom-loving warrior leading the rich and powerful against Satan (Liberalism).  How many do you think have read more than 5% of the Bible to know how to live by it literally?  Conservatives are too ignorant and lazy to research any more facts than are fed to them by the media propaganda sources, and their plugs and links to other Conservative media propaganda sources.  They think those are the only "fair and balanced" sources of information, so they contemptuously ignore any other material.  Thus they emote about the 2nd and 10th Amendments and a few Biblical passages and a few snippets of Ayn Rand and "Tear Down This Wall", and the myths are good enough to promulgate and exploit and build on, regardless of what the facts are.  This is why Conservatism is insanity--no amount of reason, even through a thorough analysis of the actual texts they believe in (like the Constitution or the Bible) will convince them of anything, because those documents cannot compete with the myth of them that they have internalized.