Because there are people who don’t buy into the social conservative agenda, but still hate the democrats.
We don’t have to run liberal candidates, but we better find a way to not turn off the liberal republicans, or else they will be moderate democrats and we will never win an election.
Reagan found a way to get those people into the party. He had democrats switching to the republican party — and they weren’t 100% conservatives, but they were willing to say they were republicans, which gave us the power to enact conservative policies.
But the more we lost conservatives who stopped acting that way, the more we take it out on the “liberals”, which just makes it harder to elect conservatives.
IT isn’t some liberal’s fault what Gingrich and DeLay and Hastert and the other so-called conservatives we elected did in congress.
The same folks who go back 18 years on Romney are just thrill McCain won so go figure....
McCain’s vote on gay marriage could strain GOP relationships
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/local/articles/0417AZinDC0417.html
Appealing to independents and appealing to liberals-who hinder your goals-is not a way to accomplish anything.
I'd much rather fashion an appeal to the seventy percent of the country that doesn't want us to become a client state of Mexico than try to attract the votes of anti-Constitution, leviathan state socialists who love McLame.