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	Name:	MartiniMan -
	Subject:	Joe's Thesis is Wrong
	Date:	6/27/2009 4:50:35 PM

Help me understand how alienating the most faithful Republicans (social conservatives) is the key to electoral success?!?!? McCain was Joe's kind of guy and we see how well he did against the Messiah. What Joe doesn't seem to get is that social conservatism is simply a wedge issue used by Democrats to attract certain voters. They will simply move onto another area to demonize Republican candidates that abandon those issues.

If the Republican party abandoned social conservative issues they become in my definition Democrat-lite. And for every social liberal they pick up by abandoning their principals they will lose 2 social conservatives. Ronald Reagan did not do that and neither did Joe Scarborough when he ran for Congress and was seated as a Freshman congressman from Florida in 1994.

He is a true Federalist and for that I admire him. He is opposed to the profligate (Archie: excessive) spending of both parties in control of Congress and is right about that as well. But he has clearly forgotten what brought him to Congress in 1994 in Florida. And he has certainly forgotten what the good priests and nuns taught him in high school that it is better to give up the whole world than to lose your soul.

Abandoning social conservative issues is saying I would rather have power than be true to my principals and would involve abandoning the defenseless unborn, the elderly to euthanasia, marriage to same sex couples, etc. Not for me and I will not vote for any politician that does so. If that means future electoral failure than so be it. I will take my consolation in the next life......God willing.