The left practiced the art of incrementalism like grand masters while we were asleep at the board. The direction of our society will not be changed in one fell swoop either. We must pick our battles in order to win the war and right now, at this point in our timeline, the battle to be won is the economy.
Making the coming election a referendum on any social issue will chase the needed independent vote back to the left and cost us the WH. That would give obama the chance to change the SCOTUS for the next forty years, effectively guaranteeing at least two more generations of RvW as law of the land.
Winning the WH by running on the economy prevents that at least and reverses it at best.
I'm sick and tired of the pragmatists. The pragmatists have, frankly, been a large part of the problem. We can't have Tom McClintock in CA because Schwartzen-Kennedy is more electable. We can't have Duncan Hunter because he lacks personality... we have to go with a winner... like John McCain. We can't have Sarah Palin because the left says we can't. I'm sick of it all.
Ronald Wilson Reagan was an unabashed pro-life advocate. With him, we got to vote for the whole man... and he won in landslides. Go vote your pragmatic vote, if you think it works for you (in contravention of history)... I'll vote for the candidate and party that stand for the issues of the day that matter.