[Sunsong]

If Republicans can’t win New Hampshire and the Mountain West, they can’t win a national majority. And they can’t win those states without libertarian votes. They’re going to need to stop scaring libertarian, centrist, and independent voters with their social-conservative obsessions and become once again the party of fiscal responsibility. In a Newsweek poll just before the election, 47% of respondents said they trusted the Democrats more on “federal spending and the deficit,” compared to just 31% who trusted the Republicans. That’s not Ronald Reagan’s Republican Party.

I think there's a lot of truth in this article. But do the "social conservatives" even care. We shall see...

[Lurker]

I think there's a lot of truth in this article. But do the "social conservatives" even care. We shall see...

Oh they care alright. Every 2 years they care a real, real lot.

Then immediately after every 2nd November they quit caring and go right back to spending other peoples money, increasing the size and power of Government, and mocking the small 'l' libertarians for bitching about the ever increasing number of social programs, rules, regulations....

Just wait till about September of '08 and check back in here.

Those 'moderate Republicans' will once again care a whole lot about the libertarians.

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[Jim Noble]

But do the "social conservatives" even care.

No, I don't think they do.

They imagine that they can form a working majority alone.

I think that's because they don't get out much.

[Daveinyork]

What, exactly is a "social conservative"? Don't they also want smaller government?