I didn’t read it as ‘ducking issues’. I read it more as refusing to be defined ONLY by those issues in lieu of fiscal issues.
Do you think Scott Brown handled the fact that he was pro-choice with the correct amount of emphasis?
Look, anytime you put an issue off-limits for discussion, yo uare ducking it. Now if you are a one-issue group, you can legitimately say “That’s not what we do, it’s not relevant to our org’s goals.” If you are more than one issue, and it is an issue that can be tied to the groups’ goals, you can’t legitimately use that line and not expect to look like any liberal or Obama when he’s asked something that’s fiar but doesn’t want to answer.
Tell me for example that getting rid of abortion isn’t part of “Restoring the Country”. This is a decision that’s only 37 years old, thrust on the country by federal courts, inventing a right to privacy that somehow guarantees it. Isn’t getting rid of a law that murders citizens before they’re born fall under “Restoring the Country”? Isn’t rolling back activist court rulings part of “Restoring the Country”? Then you are in the awkward position of explaining why an issue isn’t and why you won’t touch them.