Bob Barr, Bane of the Right?

Dana Milbank at the Washington Post has a good column on the conservative's reluctance to hear the truth that Bush is breaking the law with the NSA warrantless wiretapping program. Conservatives booed him: He [Barr] says President Bush is breaking the law by eavesdropping on U.S. citizens without warrants. And fellow conservatives, for the most part, don't want to hear it.[...]"Are we in danger of putting allegiance to party ahead of allegiance to principle?" [Barr said][...]But nobody said anything in the deathly quiet audience. Barr merited only polite applause when he finished, and one man, Richard Sorcinelli, booed him loudly. "I can't believe I'm in a conservative hall listening to him say [Bush] is off course trying to defend the United States," Sorcinelli fumed. I don't like Bob Barr's politics, but the Republican lock-step crowd refuse to hear anything against what the leadership tell them to be.