Why is the GOP courting socially liberal Democrats?
They’re courting upscale white voters who are fiscally conservative.
They want those Democrats to begin voting for them.
In a way, the Democrats’ success on abortion and gay marriage has removed two of their most potent social issues.
Spending and taxes come to the fore and that doesn’t play well to the Democrats’ core strength among white voters.
Because the GOP elites are liberals. This is a strategy to overwhelm the Tea faction of the GOP.