As if country club Republicans could ever win anything on their own.
There is a difference between social conservatives and conservatives that are both social and fiscal. Social conservatives I have met are unbending under any circumstance and if they don't get their way, they will pick up and go home and let a liberal win. I consider them the "my way" or "no way" crowd. Look at what just happened in recent months, court rulings go against what they want and they want judges impeached and an activist court.
A conservative wants a strict constructionist on the Court to rule not make up things to suit their ideology. A Conservative is the broken glass Republican who will always vote. We have to beg the social conservatives to get on board so often because some candidate is not 100% of what they want -- remember the "purist" or "true" conservative that gets tossed around -- that is from the social conservatives IMHO. That's my interpretation of the difference between a conservative and a social conservative.
BTW, if you haven't guessed, I fall the in the Conservative Republican mold that understands you don't always get everything you want but you keep on trying and never fold up your tent and go home. If I was the type to fold a tent, I would have left this site in recent months but I have chosen to stay and fight the naysayers and doom and gloomers that are now populating this site. They have risen from the ashes of 2000 to be joined by newbies or at least new screen names from 2004.
Right, country club pubs can't win on their own. But neither can social conservatives.
We are wed. That is the only way we have power. So quit dissing us at the club.