[misterrob]

The only way the Republicans can come back to prominence is to embrace limited government conservatism as its platform. Regardless of whatever people may have as social beliefs the majority of people don’t want the government involved in their lives.

[SoConPubbie]

The only way the Republicans can come back to prominence is to embrace limited government conservatism as its platform. Regardless of whatever people may have as social beliefs the majority of people don’t want the government involved in their lives.

Short-sighted and myopic.

The base of the GOP is still the social conservatives.

Your approach will never win, the social conservatives vote their principles, not pragmatism, not selfishness.

The best model is the Reagan model where all three wings of conservatism, social, fiscal, and military, get what is most important to each group and each group allows the other groups to get what they want.

In real terms, this means the Social Conservatives get their Pro-Life support and Anti Gay Marriage and a strong emphasis on families, for the Fiscal Conservatives, they get a strong push for limited government with tax cuts, cutting the size of government, and getting the Government out of our lives with all the regulation, and for the Military conservatives (Neo-Cons) there must be a strong push for strengthening our military.

In short, we need to come together as a team, quit fighting among ourselves and compromise where it counts.

[Grunthor]

“Regardless of whatever people may have as social beliefs the majority of people don’t want the government involved in their lives.”

I am one that does not believe that “limited government” and the “social right” have to be mutually exclusive.