I would go even further than you have.
I would submit that FR is not a "SoCon" site. It is a "Conservative" site. And Hunter is a "conservative" candiate. To label someone an SoCon, implies that one can be "social liberal" - and still be a conservative.
Rudy and McCain, and many of their supporters, are not conservatives - they're moderates or liberals. Some of them believe in SOME conservative positions, such as the war on terror, or reducing taxes BUT that doesn't make them conservative.
Take Rudy, for example, how is he a "Economic conservative"? He's in favor of the government paying for abortions!
As Rush stated, we're starting to redefine "conservative" to be nice to the moderates and liberal Republicans.
U-bet Rudy is not good on abortion.
Anyway, in addition to cutting taxes, Rudy cut spending 8 years in NYC. That's something conservative that Hunter and other Republican candidates could learn.
That is simply an incorrect analysis. There is not one definition of a "conservative." It is a broad movement, and there are plenty of disagreements over the details of it.
Otherwise, we'd have a party platform that almost never changes and that there is little discussion about.
Even social conservatives disagree among themselves regarding social matters.
But there are numerous categories of people who identify themselves as conservatives. Neo-cons, paleo-cons, evangelicals, fiscal conservatives, libertarian conservatives, etc.
You can't just claim that your particular brand of conservatism is the only true one out there. If you try to do that, and be exclusionary about it, you'll find yourself alone in the wilderness.