I agree. Let's stick to issues on which we agree that are important to voters: limiting taxes and defending the nation. Let's soft-peddle social issues in 2008, because they are losers.
You do not pay attention to ballot initiatives. And, if you mean caving in by "soft pedaling," I want no part of it. "Soft pedaling" Mark Foley was a brilliant strategy on social issues.
"Soft pedaling" illegal immigration was a brilliant strategy on national defense and taxes.
I have about a million more "soft pedal" issues. ("soft-peddle" was a brilliant Freudian slip, but I ain't buying it.)
Slapping a Madison Avenue designer label on a liberal and running him as a Republican is not a winning strategy. Allowing the country to rot from the inside out is not going to win the war and neither is allowing treason going unpunished within our midst.