I agree with Rodney's thoughts about the dearth of old-school conservatives. I read of some of these types looking at the current Bush administration with a critical eye.
Clearly, the "right wing" (being empire-builders, cold warriors, demagogues, fundamentalists, proselytizers and formerly liberal neo-conservatives) as it is today fits a number of the descriptions in the Berkeley study and I think calling them conservatives is done because it is currently hard to find a unifying ideology that binds them. I'm seeing a few "classic" conservatives starting to become libertarians and I think this is part of the same trend.
I thought the references to an "idealized past" were interesting; hinting at the role of mythology in politics. The increasing emergence of <a href="http://archive.salon.com/politics/feature/2002/05/24/dispensational/index.html">dispensationalism</a> could eventually offer up a whole, clearly identifiable political ideology to be studied.
Ultimately, I'm sure a study of liberals would make them sound kooky too. That's what psychologists do...make us all seem nuts.
