puroresu: “All that matters is cutting taxes and reducing spending, as Arlen Specter and Olympia Snowe said.”
Don’t you know that all the moderates say the same thing. Forget that social conservatism stuff and focus on small government. Strange thing is, they never ever actually seem to reduce government either.
Social liberalism and economic liberalism fit together like hand and glove. Show me an area of the country that's socially liberal and it's guaranteed to also be socialist. What they're basically asking us to do is look for constituencies that can't possibly exist in any consequential numbers. Such as unwed mothers who are fiscal conservatives. Or drug users who are fiscal conservatives. Or militant homosexuals who are fiscal conservatives. Or secularists who don't turn to government as their god.
Sure, individual members of any of those groups could be a fiscal conservative. But as a group they never will be, and when their “values” become the zeitgeist of a society, you can kiss fiscal conservatism goodbye. So Olympia Snowe writes an op-ed in the New York Times telling us that the “far right” ran poor Arlen Specter out of the party, and that we didn't learn our lesson when Jim Jeffords jumped ship a few years ago. She then opines that we should focus on fiscal conservatism and leave that divisive social conservatism in the trash can. But neither she, Jeffords, or Specter has ever been a fiscal conservative. In fact, she justifies her vote for Porkulus Obaminationus on the grounds that her constituents, in a state that just legalized same-sex “marriage”, demanded it. That's a state where Obama won handily, by the way.
So much for her idiotic argument, though there are Freepers who make the same assertion. Just dump the social conservatives and we'll have a fiscal conservative utopia. Here's my recommendation for them. San Francisco is perhaps the most socially liberal, anti-Christian, homo & abortion friendly place in America. No politician runs for office there on a socially conservative platform. It would be pointless to even try. Therefore, let's see the GOP go in there and run some true fiscal conservatives for office. Run candidates who wants to slash taxes, cut spending dramatically, and privatize education and social security against Nancy Pelosi and Mr. Metrosexual Mayor. These candidates can be flamingly liberal on all the social issues, so they won't have any excuse for losing, right? That is, unless socially liberal San Francisco is also socialist, in which case they'll lose badly. And we all know they would lose badly, because any place as socially liberal as San Francisco, or for that matter New Jersey, is never going to elect a fiscal conservative no matter what his stance is on abortion and the homo agenda.
No they don’t! And the fcat is, social engineering actually GROWS GOVT!