When I vote the social issues of our time are not even in the equation. For me it's lower taxes, strong support of our military and their mission, school choice, original intent judges, pro second amendment, etc.
I consider the social issues advocacy ones, not items to be legislated on. I have personal beliefs on social issues that are in line with those of social conservatives, but they remain that, personal beliefs.
BUMP!
Precisely!
People who keep bashing Arnold are either clueless of what life would be like in CA with far-leftist socialist Angelides at the helm, with the similarly far-leftist socialist Legislature, or they do want the Dems to win.
Which ones? Abortion? Gay Marriage? Euthanasia? Human Cloning? Those are social public policy issues. There is no way you cannot take a public stance on any of them except to support or oppose them. To say you don't care tells me that you have already made that choice.
In California, the issues are mostly fiscal of late. And our very own party (R) and/or governor (R) have been applauding record spending and record borrowing, record increases in education funding, funding more social programs, increased regulation to fight global warming, taxpayer subsidies to envirowackos, multimillion acre land grabs, etc. Please don't try to paint those California conservatives who are not all that pleased with the current situation as some sort of right-wing social activists.