You really think Conservative Christians are 60% of Republicans? eh PERHAPS---but if the Republican Party took a stronger libertarian turn and decided not to court conservative Christians (I doubt this is happening anytime soon) as much as they do--evangelicals and others would be jumping off the Republican Party Boat as fast as they could looking for a different shore to swim to. In my not so humble opinion, most religious conservatives are not die-hard fiscal conservatives and small government advocates---unless the government interferes in their particular arena. Actually they aren't much different than most folks. If the Republicans became more moderate (more like laissez-faire) on abortion, gay marriage, censoring porn, and other issues that Christian conservatives are primarily concerned with, many would jump ship, sit out elections, or possibly start a third party. (Actually I wonder what our political system would look like if we had 3 or 4 viable small parties in addition to Dems & Reps?---I imagine it would be colorful, if messier than it already is.)
No, but that is my point. Conservative Christian need to learn the art of compromise. It's how you win in politics. If my faction dominates that majority party, I have to give the minority factions in my party more of their agenda that the minority party will give them, otherwise they will join the minority party and together they will become the majority party, leaving me out of power.
Compromising one's principles is not well regarded in Christianity, but it is essential in politics.
Some Conservatives seem happier to lose on a pure platform, than to win on a compromise platform. While I have little affinity for Northeaster Liberal RINOs, I'd rather they were GOP than Dim. What they have to be taught is that to win some issues that are important to them, they must support the party even when they don't like it.