REAGAN did not win because of the social issues. He barely mentioned it except when addressing pro life groups. Scott Brown lost because he was an R in a heavily Obama loving state.
These issues are not going to attract young voters as we stress smaller government but want to criminalize a procedure that women view as a right. We have passed Partial birth Abortion bans and stopped tax payer funding of abortion and many states have passed parental notification. Leave it at that to the states and get it out of national politics.
The perception of some old fart like Aiken telling a girl what to do is such a turn off to young voters. I have a young daughter and she thought he was stupid and ugly.
Don’t tell me I am not a Texan when I about as conservative when it comes to fiscal issues as they get and not for gay marriage. As a woman and mother of a young daughter, the strident pro life position needs to go and leave it to the churches and pro life organizations to try to convince women not to abort.
Right on.
And now that we have the internet, the tailoring of message to ones audience is now over.
Reagan’s remarks to a pro-life group would be all over every facebook link, carefully edited into Youtube videos, and would appear the next night on Jon Stewart to much laughter.
At this point, socially conservative beliefs are important, valid, and numerically outnumbered.
Maybe you should just have a heart to heart with you daughter and explain how sex outside of marriage is not a good thing.
You are not a conservative, just because you think you are.