“I look at it this way. We have never had a complete whole social conservative run before. “
W Bush ran as a social conservative in 2000. He didn’t run on the economy because the economy was OK after the Clinton years. He didn’t run on scandal because Al Gore was a boy scout at the time.
He didn’t even run on national security because he was just a governor who didn’t seem to know much about other countries at the time.
But it was his moral compass that kept him in place after 9/11 and 2 wars. Someone with little faith would have cut and run at the first sign of trouble