Unfortunately, I have to agree with you. Witness George W. Bush's "compassionate conservatism" which resulted in a huge Medicare benefit increase for prescription drugs, and also in an Administration which looked the other way while illegal immigration got completely out of hand. Today, the Republican Party is pandering to homosexuals. It's all about the votes and power, there is no principle.
And as far as culture war issues go, the left has won on abortion. I doubt that Roe vs. Wade will ever be overturned, and even if it were, it would simply return the abortion issue to state laws. Liberal states would pass laws allowing abortion on demand. Some conservative states might severely restrict or outlaw abortion if Roe were overturned, but abortion on demand would still be the law of the land in much of the country.
And we’re on the verge of seeing federal courts impose homosexual marriage on all 50 states. It may take a few years but the seeds for that one are planted too.
And even if the U.S. Supreme Court overturns the challenges in federal court from Mass. and California, bit by bit we will see liberal states vote to allow homosexual marriage. If society continues on its current track of being more open and accepting of homosexuality, then homosexual marriage will be institutionalized in our culture.
And as a further, more tenuous *suggestion*, that the homosexuals have kept their place by means nefarious up to and including blackmail.
NO cheers, unfortunately.
More recently homosexuals have been purged from the ranks of management in the party structure.
That's been mostly at the urging of the Democrats.