"Conservative" Democrats

[Libertaire]

A former conservative Republican state senator in Wisconsin has come up with a ingenious way to help elect more conservatives to the Wisconsin State Legislature.
Run them as Democrats.
With the unpopularity of the Republican Party at an all time high and after years of futility trying to elect Republicans candidates in heavily Democratic districts, former state senator Tom Reynolds of Milwaukee has started an organization called “Clean Sweep Wisconsin” which intends to run and support a slate of conservative candidates against incumbent Democratic state Assembly and Senate members in the fall open primary.
This is tactic may or may not work, depending on voter turnout of course. But it does indicate that there’s a growing faction within the Democratic Party that may very well in time become a de facto political party on its own and may satisfy the need that many voters have for a new party:
Conservative Democrats. Continue reading.

This is of particular interest to me since this during this election, in the Palmetto State, there will be such a race between McCain's One-Man Kitchen Cabinet, Lindsey Graham (R), and a former Reform Party/Republican who boasts that he voted for Ron Paul in the primary, Bob Conley (D). Actually, if Graham is seriously challenged this could have national effects as well. Consider the Obama factor.
There has always been a "conservative" element in the Democratic Party, but they are few, especially since the time of LBJ.