There is no historical evidence that the Republican party without the support of social conservatives has been anything other than a minority party in the last fifty years. Republican successes were only possible with the support and votes of the social conservatives.
You seem to think the left will allow the Christian right to have any power, ever. I’m wondering what it is about the attacks on the Christian right over the past decade that allows you to come to that conclusion.
Basically, I’m saying it’s bad for the republican party in general if the socons sit out, but the republican party has a CHANCE of rebuilding coalitions. The socons will be permanently irrelevant. Not a good gamble. But have at it, and continue to be gleeful about it!
“There is no historical evidence that the Republican party without the support of social conservatives has been anything other than a minority party in the last fifty years. Republican successes were only possible with the support and votes of the social conservatives.”
In this particular instance, which is more important to you, the health of the Republican Party or the deaths of more babies under a Dem administration? You can make your point about the success of the Party, which I actually concur with. However, I would rather our wing of the party not have as conservative a leader as we would wish as opposed to trying to build our wing of the party up by teaching the less conservative wing of our party a lesson, which will cause the further deaths of innocent babies under a Dem policies administration. Which is more important to you, teaching our Party a lesson or keeping ever more abortions from taking place under a Dem gov’t?