Conservative politicization is revealing itself once again on the most important national security issues of the day. From nuclear proliferation to Afghanistan to the Middle East, two troubling and parallel trends regarding conservatives and their positions on national security and foreign policy have taken root: they are willing to politicize national security at any cost and they lack credibility to speak substantively on national security. Just today, Mitt Romney, in defiance of every bipartisan expert brought to testify before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, wrote that the New START Treaty is a mistake and should not be ratified. Similarly, Sarah Palin expressed baseless opinions on the Middle East on her Facebook page that are not rooted in reality. And during the Fourth of July weekend, the leader of the Republican Party, RNC Chairman Michael Steele, demonstrated clear ignorance on Afghanistan as he incompetently veered from GOP consensus on Afghanistan for political gain. His comments threw the conservative movement into confusion, drawing the ire of neoconservatives who have supported endless war in Afghanistan, and who succeeded in forcing a retraction from Steele. Time and again, conservatives, as exemplified by these leaders of the conservative movement, have demonstrated that they care more about the politics behind national security issues than the substantive issue of keeping Americans safe and prosperous.