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4 Reasons The GOP Would Be Foolish To Dump Social Issues

Stephen288 Wrote: Nov 24, 2012 12:16 PM
. . . they also gave the Obama lie factory the ammunition to make single women nationwide believe that Mitt Romney was waging a "war on women." And that helped reelect Obama. Social conservatives have a simple choice. They can work to nominate and support Republicans who can actually win elections and then go on to put conservatives on the Supreme Court. Or they can harrumph, nominate losers like Todd Akin, or stay home, and watch Barack Obama and his ilk destroy everything they care about. There are no other choices.
Troglodite Wrote: Nov 24, 2012 1:29 PM
S288:

Critical words: "then go on to put conservatives on the Supreme Court," in order to return many of these social issues to the states. Add defense of DOMA, so one state cannot export its perversities to another.

Let us be clear about two things: contrary to what the remnants of the religious right would like to believe, they are not going to win on the national battlefield any time soon; contrary to what the social "moderates" would like to believe, the GOP is not going to win by saying "me, too" to the Democrats on the social issues.

Win, lose or draw, we're always supposedly hitting a tipping point where social issues just no longer work for the Republican Party. At first glance, this would appear to be a rather puzzling sentiment. After all, in 2010, despite the fact that the GOP was just as socially conservative as we were this year, the Republican Party had its best year in half a century. Furthermore, in 2008 and 2012, the GOP lost despite running moderate candidates who were soft on social issues and who barely brought them up at all. If anything, you'd think that seeing two non-social conservatives...

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