Actually the social conservatives are the most right wing of all voters without question, just as social liberals are the most left wing, without question, the libertarians, as few as they are, can be democrat or republican, but the party that uses libertarianism for it’s platform, is hard left on everything but money issues.
The tea party is made up mostly of social conservatives, not social liberals.
I will illustrate my perception of social conservatives. Our County Board of Supervisors starts each meeting with a public invocation. The Supervisors have done this for 150 years and all wish to continue, even though there have been challenges to this practice elsewhere. Usually, the invocation is done by a Christian, but a few months ago, the Board invited a Hindu gentlemen to do the invocation. The Board is strongly in support of freedom of religion and respect for individual conscience. It is a government of all the people and representation of all religions is welcome. I consider this a libertarian point of view.
Boy did the social conservatives come out of the woodwork to protest what they considered paying homage to a false God.
I see this in a lot of things social conservatives do. We even have a fundamentalist run summer camp that believes they should be exempt from building codes because they are doing “God’s work.”
I often see intolerance of other’s beliefs, life-styles and property rights coupled with a sense of righteousness and a desire to impose restrictions on others. There is even a sense of communitarianism - that the Christian God-fearing community should be able to dictate how others use their property.
Some social conservatives are even into big into nanny state welfare programs. Look at Gov. Mike Huckabee’s record.