And therein lies the problem, your brand doesn’t work.
Excuse me. How did the conservatives do in the last couple of elections?
You think conservatives are going to make any headway on the deficit when those same conservatives try to tell a bunch of people how to live that don't want to live that way? Hi, vote for my guy because he wants you to live the way you don't want to live.
Practical reality and the sheer evidence of U.S. social policy direction should tell you it is not working.
Social conservatives should focus on effective means to bring about the kind of social change that is necessary. Trying to do it through legislative policy sure aint working. In fact, it could not be going more quickly in the wrong direction.
What you are advocating is the equivelent of trying to move a wagon uphill by pushing the rope. You aint getting anywhere. Time to start pulling.
Or thought of another way, you don't make wine by yelling down in the bottle, Be Wine!