Social Conservatism is the foundational cornerstone of Conservatism. ………
What most "moderate" conservatives don't realize, is how the left has eroded our foundation. Because they don't personally have strong religious faith, it has become easy for them to distance themselves from today's 'social conservative' and proclaim they are not a part of that.
Oh, they believe in fiscal conservatism, they just don't go along with the 'religious right' on their issues... but, it is those issues which define what Conservatism is all about.
No worries Dixie! Don’t stress about it. Virtually everyone I’ve ever run across on message board who self-identifies as a stanch “fiscal conservative” (meaning in reality, they support huge war and defense spending, but not social spending) and yet poses or presents themselves as a social liberal, is going to vote Republican 99% of the time regardless. Because even if they claim to be socially liberal, pro-marijuana, or whatever, when it comes to stepping into the voting booth and voting their priorities they’re always going to vote to keep taxes low on the rich, and to keep the war machine well funded and well oiled. Being pro-Gay marriage is just a catch phrase to ingratiate themselves with liberals. But, it will never be a top priority when stepping into the voting booth and voting their values.
These are the Bill O”Reilly moderate “independents” or “independent conservatives”. You’ll always have their vote dude. Hell, they would have voted for Bush a third time if it was constitutionally permissible, just to keep the Marxist Obama out of office.
What you need to worry about, is frightening the shit out of jewish-americans with your theocrats like Palin and Huckabee; alienating blacks with Reagan’s “welfare queen” jokes; and scaring the bejesus out of Hispanics with Fox New’s never-ending quest to frighten Americans about invasions of terrifying brown people. I don’t think, broadly speaking, jews, blacks, or Hispanics are necessarily lefty liberals on a whole range of issues. I would say most of them are fairly middle of the road if you look at the whole range of social and economic issues. You just happen to have lost their votes and confidence for a generation with your xenophobia and your reactionary theocratic candidates and rhetoric.
But personally, I would be
way into it if you and your party nominated Palin and Huckabee in 2012. That would rule!
