Leftists will hate conservatives with rabin, unreasoning slavish hatred no matter what conservatives say or do. We’d have to totally reject every conservative principle and join their ranks to please them.
So sucking up to them saying “we really like ‘gays’ - we just don’t want the homosexual agenda” will do nothing. Nothing.
Rabid, unreasoning slavish hatred. Not “rabin”.
It’s not liberals I care about, it’s the hundred million “independents” that either vote, or COULD vote if we convinced them it was worth their time, and who are looking to keep government out of their business, not looking for a holy war.
I don’t want them in my party picking my candidates, but I want them to vote for my candidates in November.
This isn’t a foreign concept, and people here at FR understand it, like all those who actually sent money to Scott Brown, a man who isn’t anti-homosexual but is against gay marriage, and isn’t pro-life but at least wants to keep government out of funding abortions. (I couldn’t send money to a pro-abortion candidate like Brown, but I don’t fault those here who did).