What a crock of nonsense. His debate performance and poor explanation as to why he signed on to the Bush agenda is what is hurting him along with the multimillion dollar Romney sleaze campaign.
Social issues will be part of the Presidential race and the GOP platform or the Republican party will cease to exist as we know it. Get used it.
We saw how far the avoidance of “social issues” got John McCain in 2008.
I don’t trust anyone who tries to marginalize life and family as trivial fringe issues. The moral decline of our society is the root cause of every domestic problem we face and it will be the death of us if we don’t recognize it.