[RockyMtnMan]

The primary reason the Tea Party has been so successful is it has avoided social issues altogether. Social issues are the single greatest dividing issue among conservatives. We should stay focused and avoid those arguments until we get our government under control.

Fiscal policy is a science not an opinion or moral position. Numbers are numbers and we can all agree the numbers are way out of line. SoCons need to put their “issues” on the back burner until we can purge our government of progressives and get our financial future back on track. Otherwise we’ll be fighting a multi-front war of which we will NOT win. Stay focused and keep up the momentum, the left will try and side track us with these social issues to dilute the sound argument that government is out of control, which leads to THEIR social agenda.

[bobzeetwin]

Well said. Prepare to have your intelligence, patriotism, and motives attacked.

[DJ MacWoW]

Social liberalism costs money. Fight both social and fiscal liberalism or lose.

[Pan_Yan]

SoCons need to put their “issues” on the back burner until we can purge our government of progressives and get our financial future back on track.

The problem is that social liberals will NOT put their issues on the back burner. The entire democrat party is made up of single issue candidates, most of which are social issues. They will not give up their single issue for the sake of fiscal conservatism. Halting liberalism on one front while giving ground on the other is a very dangerous strategy. It plays right into Margret Thatcher's Ratchet Theory.

[MrEdd]

SoCons need to put their “issues” on the back burner

No they do not.

It pays them best to hold their course.

You see, prosperity is not the highest goal for social conservatives - social issues are.

The left wants to control people and force their agenda of reduced population and government control on the population.

As the population gets squeezed, people eventually have to align with one side or another.

If neither the social conservatives nor the hard left budge, who do you think the apolitical will find more attractive?

You do not have an intellectually sound position And I have been successfully teaching social conservatives in my area to see these points for several years now.

Compromise, ain't happening.

[LomanBill]

[The primary reason the Tea Party has been so successful is it has avoided social issues altogether.]

 

There was never any hesitation to include the word "UNDER GOD" in the pledge at the events I attended.

 

Seems to me the success of the Tea Party, both in 1776 and now, is derived from the Conservative American recognition that Freedom is a Gift from God -- not something manufactured by idolatrous worship of a man-made system of economic, "Fiscally Conservative", self-gratification.

It wasn't the SIZE of government that was at issue in 1776: But the PURPOSE.

Reform the purpose, and the size will follow.