If the best they can do on social issues is those like Todd Akin then yes they should abandon them.
Akin and a few others furthered Obama’s agenda better than any Dem did(Romney helped too).
Alternatively the Little Sisters of the Poor ad against the birth control mandate was a home run.
Losing to Dems just to say ‘I took a (losing) stand’ is a date in the book of irrelevance and sometimes idiocy.
Akin was Michele Bachmann’s endorsement, not the GOPe, nor the tea party.
Akin was just a bad candidate that Palin and the tea party, and the establishment all tried to get out.
Akin said the truth and should have been supported. The dems can talk all day about abortion and then the Conservatives only respond with IM PRO LIFE. Then they shut up. Well what are the youth going to do? They see one side defending and attacking and the other side running from the fight.
If you can’t stand up for the unborn, you should sit down for the rest of your life.