The religious right makes up more than one in five in the South...especially the Deep South....they may be the majority of Conservative voters.
Folks deride social conservatives like myself without really thinking it out too much. The battle in this country between right and left is not about taxes or Iraq.....it's about the social agenda and how the left utterly despises Christian (and a few Jewish) Conservatives who have what they view as intolerant views on social and cultural issues.
It is why they loathe genuinely born again George W Bush....perhaps some segments of the Left like union workers or rural southern blacks don't hone in on the social issues but the rest do. It defines them.
To brush off social conservatism as unimportant for our victory is foolhardy and ignorant of what mostly motivates us and our foes here at home.
The WOT has admittedly diluted this a hair....as is evident by many new socially liberal freepers who consider themselves zealous conservatives since they want to crush the Islamists....glad to have them....we can argue later...lol...after the moon rockies are vanquished.
Being a social conservative myself, I agree with you. In the last year or so FR has seen RINOism rise to new levels and traditional conservatism take a back seat. I don't care what a person does behind closed doors. I just don't want someones private dealings thrust in my face.
Agree.