So, murdering babies for political expediency is OK in your book?
Voters, by and large, have core values. Your argument seems to be that the voter is required to set aside their core values and support the party's candidate because the other party's candidate is so much worse. So much for core values, huh?
Parties once had core values. The dems still do, and seem to have no problem ramming abortion, gay rights, and wealth distribution down everyone's throats when they have the chance. The pubbies have decided they can be just like the dems, only a little less so. So the Republican voter has to side with the dem-lite just because the dem-heavy is a little worse?
If your core value - the overriding principle that guides your conscience - is winning elections, then you are welcome to your method of exercising your vote. But your sanctimony and recriminations against others who hold different issues as sacred is childishly petulant.
Scaling back the "core Republican platform" to exclude some of the defining issues, such as abortion, is tantamount to a phrase that ends with "... and the horse you rode in on!".
Conservatives have long told the African-American community that the dems only want to "keep them on the plantation", never addressing the issues important to that group. Now, you are advocating founding just such a plantation for Christian conservatives within the Republican party. No thanks.
Ummm... Let me think about this... Ummm... No.
I am not advocating abortion. Nobody on the Republican side is advocating abortion.
The problem is, nobody on the Republican side is meeting the requirements for whatever imaginary test some people seem to have for purity on the abortion issue. This argument has side-tracked the party from the important issues.