There are hundreds of thousands, probably millions, of social conservatives like myself who aren’t primarily interested in marginal tax rates or a host of other issues. We are social conservatives. We have been used and abused for too long. Get back with us when you support our values. Otherwise, you might as well leave us alone. You might not like it, but that’s the bottom line. If you have no interest in our most important values, we have no interest in voting for you.
Then you might want to articulate those values so the rest of us (and them) can know what they are. I'm never quite certain what they are, considering the nature of vigorous debate between what appears to me to be like-minded 'evangelicals'.
If you're talking about ending a lot of the slimy things we see with the coarsening of American culture these days, I'm all on board. We share those values.
If you're talking about codifying Biblical-based teachings into American law, we may have a significant problem.
If you're demanding that the GOP accept values in the national platform that the universe is only 6000 years old and that much of science is Satanic fraud meant to confuse mankind, then you might want to find another political party that supports those values.
Amen. An open sewer is still an open sewer, even if it has a balanced checkbook.