I'm already working with my local Republican party members towards a run for state senator in several years, and I've obtained pledges of funding from several sources, including my state medical specialty society. I just hope the GOP doesn't abandon me by abandoning social conservatives first.
To the dismay of some "conservatives" on this "Conservative" Forum, social conservatives aren't going to shut up, and we aren't going to surrender our party to them without a fight.
Fight. You'll still lose.
The outcome has already been decided by the voting public.
Let me clear something up right here. Alot of the so called social conservatives are ex democrats who did not abandon their party on economics or their love of the constitution. A bunch of socialists of the Gary Bauer type, left the democrats in the 60's and 70's, because they thought that the civil rights movement, and the things that sprung up from it were being promoted by the northern yankee democratic party.
The republican party opposed quotas not to keep the niggras in their place, but because it was an unfair remedy. Those who want to create the Taliban in the GOP can go pack their bags and go some place else. The republican party is conservative. Tariff loving, freedom hating, Revelation today desiring johnny come lately types are not going to steal this party. When the party agrees on principal with fundamentalist christian aims, it promotes them, but not just those ideas. It promotes freedom and liberty as our natural rights.
I am a Goldwater Republican, not a Pat Robertson republican. Goldwater and even the Rockefeller wings were republicans long before the holy roller crowd abandoned the donkeys and decided to set up shop.