Since the Democratic Party’s decisive electoral victories in 2006 and 2008, the Tea Party movement has helped to re-energize conservatism.  The movement has focused largely on domestic politics, promoting limited government, fiscal responsibility, and individual liberty.  The reality is, however, that when it comes to foreign policy the conservative movement is being pulled in multiple, and often mutually exclusive, directions.  Some believe that democracy promotion should be the cornerstone of American foreign policy while others do not.  Quite simply, the conservative movement does not have a coherent foreign policy platform.  Going forward, it will be important for conservatives to articulate a clear foreign policy platform.  What is at stake is not the success of the conservative movement or a political party…