I think we have learned that we can not be a party of the fiscally conservative but socially moderate. We need to be one or the other. Seeing that social liberalism is an import from outside our party, and has never been a part of the platform, I say they go. We may lose in two years, but a party divided can not stand.
That’s silly. We are a party of conservatives and must welcome all conservatives to the tent if we are to be the big-tent majority party.
Most socially moderate people don’t care if other people are socially conservative if they leave them alone. Reagan was a social conservative but he couched his social conservatism in terms of federalism and strict originalist judges.
The republican party did fine with socially moderate, fiscal conservatives before terry schiavo. That was just a disaster for congress.
Remember, Reagan was all 3 legs of social conservatism (foreign policy, social, and fiscal), but his tent of voters and cabinet members included a mix of the legs.
If you want us to be “pure” go join the constituionalist party that just killed our senate seat in oregon and see how far that gets you when liberals with a 0 ACU rating beats a conservative with a 70 lifetime ACU rating.