"At least I can be rest assured conservative doesn't constitute being an absolute intellectual lightweight."
I reject this premise.
I'll give you this much, maybe HotCopper Conservative are different to the garden variety Conservatives. In my experience HC conservatives are intellectually dishonest (PC for morons) some deliberately (conartists variety) and the unintentional (useful idiots)
"No fan of the CC Absolute no fan of Pell"
[Claps with two pinkies] haha