"Social conservatives" are usually "fiscal conservatives", as well. And fiscal conservatives want no part of a tax-raising, open-borders welfare-stater, that's for sure. I happen to believe that Mike is indeed "an irrelevant creation of a bored press corps". The author, Jennifer Rubin, proves it with the very drivel she wrote.
How about the very bored people like me and you who are talking about this stuff in between getting up to answer the doorbell every 3 minutes for a trick or treater.