Or young voters (I don’t necessarily mean 18 year olds, but maybe late-20 early 30 year olds that haven’t been involved in the past) that are more on the libertarian side of the Republican spectrum. They find the disagreement over gay marriage and comments from Todd Akin offensive, but still believe in fiscal conservatism.
Young voters are liberals and they believe what the left has taught them, right now the left is focused on destroying social conservatism, then they will work on destroying the economic policies of the social conservatives.
The left will succeed with the young, until we can make them more inculcated with social conservatism.
Your point is interesting. The dem party also has disagreement over gay marriage and Todd Aiken only made one comment I know of that was inaccurate and his race was only relevant to Missouri. Dem’s make offensive comments frequently and J Biden, for example, makes comments, weekly, that suggest he is undiplomatic and too foolish to have in a seat just one step away from the Presidency. Wouldn’t those points matter to libertarians? I suggest a more predictive answer may be found in education and media propaganda. Most people simply don’t know better. Those are just my assessments. I appreciate your post and am not criticizing.