Abortion is an idea that affects both.
"I'd prefer to win on ideas, but I'll take a victory where I can get it."
Atleast now we should focus on electing GOP'ers who actually HAVE ideas.
I think we CAN win on Both~ The question is: will we decide to (or blather into liberal obscurity pandering to the media, and leftists)..
That's a tough battle to engage in, especially against a party whose entire strategy rests on class warfare and promises to its "base" (society's parasites and losers, etc.) that it will use the heavy hand of government to confiscate more and more money from society's hard-working success stories ("Republicans") and hand it over to them (the Democrat "base") in the form of "free" money (welfare), "free" health care, "free" education, "free" housing and food, zillions of other "free" government programs, "jobs" in government, etc., etc.
The only place where the forum of ideas comes into play is if you can finally convince those particularly dense voters who vote Democrat, even though they work hard and value the normal family unit and traditional American values, the stupidity of their irrational voting habits. That is not an easy task, but we must plod forward and never relent.
Many freepers prefer victory over ideas.