Seeing as how hits on “SoCons” is utterly mythological, since this isn’t actually a social vs fiscal conservative issue, I’d say your post and a good portion of that article are irrelevant.
Since both candidates have the same “social” positions, it can’t be an issue between Social vs Fiscal conservatives.
Like I said before. It is a situation where we have a group of people who basically have failed to vet their own candidate, and have fallen inlove with the religious/social arguments that their candidate uses to cover up his lack of a platform and fiscal record. Apparently, they identify religious arguments with “true conservatism”, and so they project all their hopes and dreams on him.
Fact is, conservatives have been doing this with just about every candidate who gets his “flavor of the month” time. It’s just the bandwagon effect over and over again, and conservatives voting for phantoms and images. Which is why they can support one candidate one day, and then switch to the other. No principles are actually determining their choices. Just image, emotional arguments, and perception.
In other words, the same stuff that got Obama elected.
And as for Santorum again. It is very much a perception issue. The perception is driving his favorability, and the perception is what is putting people into denial about his character, record and plans. And so they latch on to whatever they can do hold on to their delusions, which just happens to be the social issues.