This means the is a very strong likelyhood the GOP will split prior, or as a result of the 2012 primaries.
There are at least 25million voters onboard with the GOP...new GOP...that are uncomfortable with "Social Issues"
I suspect the GOP will have to choose between keeping them, or keeping the 25million "Social Conservatives".
It's lose/lose either way.
As long as we don't abandon any of the main planks of conservatism (fiscal, social, national defense), everyone will stay on board.
When we get in trouble is when we stray from any of those (e.g., "compassionate conservatism," "Rockefeller Republicans," etc.).
For the left.
Unemployed people (as has been very much the case these past 2 years of leftist agenda) have nothing but time to re-evaluate their priorities.
If the social liberals in both parties keep the nation on the liberal course, the social conservatism follows.
Historically, the nation that emerged from the great depression was far, far, more conservative socially than the US during the gilded age - that is not even remotely debatable. FDR enacted a certain amount of socialism fiscally (building on Hoover's playing the same roll Obama is now reprising) but the social mores moved to the right of the roaring 20s.
No Compromise.
>>that are uncomfortable with “Social Issues”
Maybe that’s because they’ve been indoctrinated and desensitized with politically correct purple bovine excrement — you know, the pro-homo propagandafest the MSM is selling these days?
Meanwhile, some of us are STILL capable of observing relevant self-evident Natural Truths — such as “Gay” penguins in the San Fransicko zoo, that WEREN’T — for OURSELVES.
Is the activist exploitation of reproductive dysfunction a CHOICE? Yes, it is.
NO SALE.
Wrong. Conservative Republicans win elections, socially leftist Rs do not (except maybe in MA which is a lost cause right now anyway).