I appreciate and echo your support for those candidates, but see my post 118, especially the electoral map links. Social conservatives and their issues are a boon, not a drag.
With all due respect, the now zotted original poster was discussing social conservatives and the Tea Party, not the Republican Party. The Tea Party is, by design, limited in scope to issues regarding government spending, growth, and taxation. It was meant to, and should continue to, occupy only the area where conservatism and libertarianism overlap. Any attempt to hijack it for social causes will fracture it, and destroy the most powerful weapon against Big Government since Ronald Reagan himself.
This is what I was agreeing with.