[meadsjn]

What is at issue is whether social conservatives expect their issues to be part of the discussion.

Will you vote for an anti-God, anti-gun, anti-life candidate if he also happens to be for reducing the size of government?

No. All the anti-God, anti-gun, anti-life, anti-American candidates and politicians of recent years have all been big government proponents.

Constitutional conservatives are pro-God, pro-gun, pro-life, pro-liberty, and pro-American.

"Social conservatives" are mostly big-government liberals pretending to be pro-God -- they intend to dictate how other people will worship. The issues they pretend to support would all be non-issues if they would support a Constitutional platform and respect the rights of others; but social-cons are only interested in dictating.

[xzins]

No. All the anti-God, anti-gun, anti-life, anti-American candidates and politicians of recent years have all been big government proponents.

All I have to say to that is "an atheist libertarian".

[ansel12]

Social conservatives are the small government people, that is why the tea party is more social conservative, more religious, than the GOP.

It is also why the vast majority of social liberals, vote for big government and against conservatism.

[ExCTCitizen]

So true...so true...