It's a big world, with all sorts of folks who have all sorts of ideas.
Certainly a person can be both a social and a political conservative.
But there are a large number of us 'contract with America' voters who are socially liberal, politically conservative.
We *used* to be welcome here. When we agreed on political issues, we worked together. When we disagreed on social issues, we debated.
That balance seems to be a thing of the past. Now, if I'm not a 'social C', i'm a blankety-blank-blank liberal.
I guess that's just the new way of things.
I don’t know you very well, though we have posted to each other a few times. So you admit that you are socially liberal, or at least moreso than most here. And that’s fine and dandy. No reason for you to be chased off, in the slightest. Heck, there are even atheists here and lotsa little “l” libertarians.
The difference you are seeing now is that for the first times, at least since FR was created, a social liberal is the frontrunner for the GOP nomination. It was easier to gloss over past differences in candidate preferences because they all at least gave lip service to the post Reagan GOP platform. And none had a certifiably hostile record on the 2A, and none would be caught dead at a NARAL event. Add onto that the illegal alien explosion, and Rudy’s awful record in this regard, and you have the recipe for what is happening now.
Those that put GOP winning above sticking to GOP conservatism are going to get hammered when they support Rudy. Not because we want to destroy the party. We want to save it from irrelevance. Nothing good can come out of abandoning any part of Reaganism: whether its the desire for smaller government, tax cuts, robust military, support for life issues, or constitutionalism.
I guess you didn’t get the memo! :^)