Posted on 05/08/2012 5:29:23 PM PDT by Steelfish
The one guy who got this right in 2008 was Rudy Giuliani.
He said we can have the GOP be a big tent with respect to social issues and draw in all fiscal conservatives through originalism and federalism. Appoint strict constructionist judges and devolve power out to the states through federalism and it no longer matters what the personal opinions of the President are.
Unfortunately this reasoning fell on deaf ears here at FR and among conservatives in general. So instead of Rudy we nominated Juan McCain, a man who I hold in far lower regard based on ideological grounds than I do Mitt Romney. And further McCain had no lead in his pencil and he threw the election to the Kenyan Kommunist, and now we have bankruptcy, unilateral disarmament and surrender, abortion aplenty, and the gay. Great result, that!
Mitch Daniels spoke of a “truce” on social issues but that is the wrong approach. Social conservatives rightly see this as them being asked to drop their social conservative agenda in an effort to draw in more libertarian types who are asked to drop nothing. Rather than a truce it is more of an agreed-upon strategy. Originalism and federalism.
We can do this.
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