Is it possible to be a ‘fiscal only’ Conservative?
Even if it were, why would fiscal conservatives support the GOP establishment? Debt ceiling increases, more continuing resolutions, refusal to use the purse strings as an advantage, funding Obamacare, more government waste. Fiscal conservatives have no home in the GOP either.
Our Founders wrote about the following:
Life - which is human life and includes family and social issues.
Liberty - which one of the contexts of what our Founders meant was the freedom to ply an honest trade in order to support the family.
Pursuit of Happiness - is the ability to pursue the end for which God created you which is within a virtuous context.
Now, these are the fundamentals given to us by God and recognized by our Founders and stipulated as the foundation of all our liberty.
They cannot be separated without harming our freedom in general.
When a "fiscal-only" conservative works to kick out a "social" conservative, he is only serving the people who want to destroy our God-given liberty.
They become the devil's tool by working to divide and conquer.
Life and Liberty, or social and fiscal, cannot be separated without harming the entire structure of freedom.
Yes, in the Federal arena, at least.
You see, if the federal government were to stick to the Constitution there'd only be like five or six federal agencies (Army, Navy, Post Office, State dept., Dept. of Transportation, and the IRS.)
Virtually all the social issues
are properly the purview of the States under the 9th and 10th Amendments.