Several seem to feel that something about the GOP needs to change to attract those almost conservative voters, but no one has yet defined - specifically - what those changes should be. Maybe because the party really can't change anything about the pro-life, pro-traditional marriage stances without fundamentally changing the party, and alienating and losing far, far more dependable, conservative voters for some pie-in-the-sky wishful thinking about all the new voters that might be won if just a few little, hard to define things were changed.
All that navel gazing by Republicans who are uncomfortable around all those icky, conservative Christians will do little but bring more defeats to the party. The country clubbers need to learn to sell the parts of the party they do believe in more effectively, rather than trying to demean and insult the more conservative members to attract potential new voters who don't even share very basic principles.
It has nothing to do with being a Christian, conservatives can come in all stripes, I know many hindu Indian engineers who are WAY more socially and economically conservative than their Christian counterparts.
You’re missing my point, its not that the party needs to change its fundamental principles, but that it needs to broadcast the message that the party is not an all or nothing proposition. If you want to come to the party for the low tax message you should be able to, if you want to come to the party for the pro-life stance then you should be able to. We shouldn’t be excluding people because they don’t subscribe perfectly to what YOU choose to define is “conservative.”