LOL, this should be entertaining
Popcorn popping
Without social conservatism there is no conservatism.
I have yet to see a social moderate/fiscal conservative who didn’t end up as a full on liberal scumbag.
Pfft. Why not promise them free X-Boxes? We don’t need to appeal to the youth’s distrust of government. Just let them get screwed by the Dems, and they’ll have nowhere else to go. Especially since they’re the first generation in a long time to inherit less wealth than their parents.
2 words. “Horse” and “Pucky”. Just look at how well dumbing down standards worked for mainline (Methodist/etc) churches. People want to stand for something, or at least I do. When the GOP stands for nothing it will go the way of the Whigs (and it’s on it’s way now, IMHO).
So play to Millennials sense of victimhood, entitlement, immaturity, and delusions of grandeur?
America doesn’t have 10 years to screw around with these dingbats. Either they get with the program or in a few years THIS will be the good old days.
So far the NO’s have it :)
HAHA
We must accept no rule of law for immigration, we must accept the destruction of the institution of marriage, we must accept abortion on demand for children, we must accept homosexuals preying on our children...
I didn’t read the article, but I’m guessing this is the social conservatism that they’re targeting. Another day, another ‘roadmap’ that requires becoming liberal lite, and simply chips away at what little sanity there is left.
GWB was villified by the media while the Millennials were reaching the age of majority.
Maybe they're waking up.
Why would the GOP "dial back" on social issues when the youngest generation is the most pro-life?
A real winning strategy.
Fiscal conservatism results in policies that promote social conservatism.
Looks more as if what Bill Bennett called the “coarsening of the culture” is here. And what my generation called “traditional values” have gone the way of the dodo bird.
The liberal popular media and Marxist dominated government schools have done their jobs remarkably well.
If “conservative” students are there already, it is probably heading even lower from here and my bottom line is that far worse than obozo awaits us. And I say, let them have the coming tyranny they have earned good and hard. At my age, my wife and I will most likely be off the planet (probably at the hands of a death panel).
But I am deeply saddened that my children and grandchildren will have to live through the coming hell.
Abortion and homosexual marriages are no go zones.
I am not changing my mind on that to attract anyone.
Young people are more pro-life than they have been in forty years.
Why go backward?
Especially when the Dems are the ones counting the votes in the cities?
That is where we are losing elections.
Ah, basically he's recommending the "Massachusetts model" for the national party! The MA GOP has -- for at least the last 30 years -- been liberal on social issues, to the extent that if a social conservative decides to run, they'll scrounge up a liberal to primary him, and party support goes to the liberal. Their stated position is silence on social issues; their actions speak otherwise.
And look at the electoral success of this method: the GOP currently holds 10%-12% of the legislature, no statewide offices, and no members of the congressional delegation. Way to go!
Without social conservatism, economic conservatism is impossible.
We already know how people vote, and the vast majority of social liberals vote for liberal economics which is to be expected, while the vast majority of social conservatives vote conservatively.
Take the message to the voters and explain WHY these views are the right ones and put all the issues in perspective. There is not reason a voter should agree on 70% of the issues and then vote the other way because of one or two things. Explain the Big picture and why we need to go for limited government. Explain roe vs wade in terms of state rights. Explain gay marriage in real terms of it being a government contract and that govt doesn’t have the ability to define love. Lessen the impact of these issues even if they don’t agree. It’s something our side has been terrible at doing since Reagan, other than Bush. He did a great job in 2000 on the social issues. Be bold but undercut the dems attacks by making it reasonable and not heartless.
So another-words, to get millennials all we have to do is quit being Conservative.
Hasn’t that been the play-book since 1988? Yes..., it has been!
How has that worked for us?
Good gravy, will some folks NEVER learn? How many decades do we have to go down to defeat, before we realize there’s only need for ONE Democrat party.
When do we get a party to challenge the Democrats?
Evidently NEVER.
Take this article and choke on it National Journal.