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But there will have to be a strong commitment to all three. They also need to focus on the family

I am very sympathetic to you socons. I will go so far as to say that the nation would be better off if you all were running it.

BUT

You really need to start delivering something other than catastrophes on Election Day to get what you want from the GOP.

YOU DO NOT HAVE A MAJORITY ANYWHERE. YOU CANNOT WIN ELECTIONS WITH 30% OF THE VOTES.

What the GOP "must do" is they must improve their winning percentage. Your demands, to the extent that they filter through to campaigns, do not improve the winning percentage. They make it worse.

As coalition partners, you can be effective. You cannot rule, and constantly pretending that, if only the GOP nominee for any office would run on your agenda that he would win, has been proven false over and over again.

You really need to start delivering something other than catastrophes on Election Day to get what you want from the GOP.

YOU DO NOT HAVE A MAJORITY ANYWHERE. YOU CANNOT WIN ELECTIONS WITH 30% OF THE VOTES.

Principles are funny that way, especially when you are a Christian.

For us, they are not fungible, they are not negotiable.

I'd suggest that if you want the GOP to win elections, you get busy convincing others of the correctness of our positions and the fact we won't negotiate on these issues.

Otherwise, get used to losing.

The best political model was Reagan's model where each of the three factions of conservatism got what was most important to them:

1. Social conservatives got a strong commitment to social issues, but they had to agree to letting things that might not be as important to them go, like maybe fiscal conservatism.
2. Fiscal conservatives got a strong commitment to limited government, but they had to agree to let things like the social issues go
3. SoCons, or military/defense conservatives, got a strong commitment to military and defense issues, but had to let the secondary issues (to them) go like the social issues and limited government.

If the GOP is to succeed going forward they can't favor one group over the other, but need to focus on all three areas.

Walking away from your base, and the religious, social conservatives is a large part of the GOP base will be disastrous for the GOP.

Mitt Romney just finished doing that with his support of Abortion and the Gay Agenda and he lost a election that he should have walked away with against a socialist.

Granted there was cheating involved, but his margin of victory should have been so large that cheating would have never been a factor.