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.
All one has to do is read a couple of the latest threads here to understand what they are talking about. I am amazed how very close minded some on this site have become.
I think the issue is less with scaring liberatrian with soical issues and more with being completely fiscally irresponsible.
For starters, liberal social policies are all too wound up in fiscal policy. They feel bad about something, so they want to throw money at it. They want to fund this project or that, and generally start new programs to address new social ills.
Not exactly libertarian.
But as Republicans have ditched economic responsibility, so they've given liberatarians very little room to roam.
I'm biased, as I'm a social and fiscal conservative, but that's my take.
Whatever happened to Republicans and Conservatives who thought social engineering--from the right OR from the left--should NOT be one of the functions of government?
I guess we're all screaming about how evil Big Brother is when it's the ACLU types who are wearing his mask. When it's the religious right, suddenly it's good government to tell individuals how to live their lives.