[Sloth]

And the Republicans can't win without the Libertarian wing of the party. Somehow we need to figure out how to compromise, but the big-government social right won't consider bending even a little.

As a social conservative AND a libertarian, that is complete nonsense. There IS no big-government social right. There are just big-government politicians (like the Pres) that also happen to pander to the social right.

[Spyder]

There IS no big-government social right.

By big-government social right, I mean the single-issue, every-sperm-is-sacred, big-government social right. The ones who want to ban sales of various birth control pills because there's a .005% chance that it *might* be an abortifacient. I'm not referring to the big spenders - that's one area I think most all Republicans can agree on is budget cuts.