meh...
The populations of those areas are not going to elect limited government type conservatives whether they attempt to ignore your “social wedge” issues or not. The local and national media will make sure of it.
SO... If your only going to get a socialist elected, there is no reason to compromise our ideology. What I mean by this is its pointless to elect someone whos ideology is the antitheses of ours. Get enough of them in the party and they will push out the limited government type conservatives and lobby for further “moderation” as a way of winning even more seats. (for socialists.. not conservatives)
Instead of fighting the socialists in the other party, we are now fighting the socialists in the other party and those in the GOP (whom of which now virtually OWN the GOP). No thanks... Been there done that... Still stuck there...
The path to reclaiming the freedom we so cravenly abandoned, doesn’t pass through the socialist slave states anyway. In fact, it doesn’t even pass through Washington, DC. The path leads through those states and peoples that are willing to retake the positions that were intended for them and declare their sovereignty from the federal governments usurpations through actions and not just resolutions.
I bet you if Peter Schiff runs, he crushes Dodd in Connecticut.