Based on current polls of American voters, social issues are not near the top of list. Personally I think social issues are important to enhance quality of life. But even more important is to win elections FIRST. Because when you lose elections, you are powerless to advance any laws or nominate judges favorable to your agenda on social issues. The horse must come before the cart, even if the cart is more important.
Polls notwithstanding, studies in Kansas and Macomb county MI show that God, guns and babies are huge issues in determining who wins elections. Romney is the other kind, they lose.
You guys being liberal on social issues is how you depressed turnout in 2012 and wiped out, in an election that republicans couldn’t lose, you got your social liberalism and lost the presidency and cost seats all down the ticket.