Maybe you need to reverse your calc. If you want to attract Dems, you promote fiscal and security issues. But you can’t win without us, and we’re not voting for anyone who stutters on gay marriage or abortion.
Do your PR however you like, whatever you think will work. But don’t think you can win without us. And we’re getting really tired of people who say they’re with us, only to “reach across the aisle” once they get into office.
The fact that you consider these to be wedge issues, though, reflects what I was saying. The moral issues have to be engaged at a level deeper than politics. If you can’t find a majority of Americans who understand that marriage is sacred, and life is sacred, our problems go much deeper than balancing budgets.
It’s not either or. It’s focusing on fiscal issues.
Why are you making it us vs them internally? Most conservatives have the same beliefs on abortion, gay marriage, etc. and no one is suggesting they shouldn’t.
But the fiscal concerns of Americans hit everyone, and they are coming around to the conservative viewpoint on economic issues.