I see that York uses the term "social conservative" at least twice in the excerpt alone.
If "social conservative" is code for "Christian Republican," then I wish they'd just talk straight and say "Christian Republican" and leave the word "conservative" out of it. Because what the phrase "social conservative" REALLY means is someone who's okay with government tyranny as long as it aims to control people to refrain from Christian-defined sins and to engage in Christian behaviors such as charity. This is as opposed to "social liberal" tyranny, which uses government tyranny to force people to refrain from such "social liberal" sins as peacefully, civilly ostracizing open homosexuals in their schools, workplaces, communities, military, and which uses government tyranny to force people to tolerate and fund abortion, state-administered "charity," etc.
A "social conservative" uses government as liberally and frequently as a Democrat. In their case, the meaning/use of the word "conservative" is as skewed as the word "gay" to describe a homosexual.
An actual CONSERVATIVE in the straight use of the word, believes in the conservative use of government -- on the same working definition of the word that applies to a woman who dresses "conservatively" by using restraint in the fashions she wears, or how a cook who uses salt "conservatively" in cooking, uses restraint in how much salt he puts in the food.
A conservative in government by actual definition uses government with restraint. That is what "conservative" actually means, without code.
"Social conservative," my eye. What that really means is a "Republican who is comfortable using government tyranny to enforce Christian mores by punishing sins as crimes and usurping Christian duties such as charity from individuals, and relegating them to the state."
Just because someone is a Christian, doesn't mean he or she is a "conservative."
As long as the political definition of "conservative" has two such diametrically opposed meanings, as long as people tolerate phrases to serve as code for something else, a practice indication need for deception, then any kind of unity among "conservatives" will be elusive.
God bless Sarah Palin, Ted Cruz, Jim Robinson, and America.
Exhibit A: Mike Huckabee.