Aiken WAS part of the problem because he was stupid and arrogant, and ending up costing us a senate seat.
Mourdock seemed OK until his gaffe, Lugar wasn’t a prize to begin with.
I do think that Social Conservatism has a shrinking base among younger generations, and I don’t know how that is to be reversed.
A lot of that “younger generation” will grow up at some point
It does have a shrinking base—at least the hardline positions do.
GOP doesn’t have to get rid of social conservatism entirely… but it’s going to have to moderate stances on abortion, gay marriage, etc.
Through education. And, realistically, ridicule. That is what it is going to take.
How has the left made social conservatism unpopular? Through ridicule.
How can we make social liberalism unpopular? Through ridicule.
Since only NE went Republican for Senate in those “battleground states”, it is likely that MO and IN would have gone Democrat anyway. There was an anti-GOP trend for the Senate, but not for the House, where both liberals and conservatives stick with their own incumbents though they loathe the House as a whole.
It’s one thing to be pro-life, but they ventured where most pro-life politicians don’t even dare to venture ...RAPE
The media set an obvious trap and these lemmings walked right into it . Aiken was bad , but Mourdock is beyond daft for seeing what happened to Aiken and then one-upping him ...
Couple these morons with RINO (baby huey) Christie and we took it from both ends and lost . Thank these three amigos for four more years of hell!
I agree. And no, I don't know how to reverse it either. Fact is, social conservative issues appear to drive away more voters than they gain. In the last two decades the only social issue liberals have lost ground on has been gun control. They've soldiered ahead on everything else with great success.
No. If the GOP had come out and said that these men a Christians and every Christian knows that however concieved every child is Known TO God and a miracle and a blessing. Since the editors at the New York Slimes are not Christians, they cannot understand this simple fact. All these men were saying and everything they are being castigated for is simple fact to Christians but unfathomable to others. Had the GOP done that they MIGHT have begun to “alter the terrain of the battlefield.” By continuing to struggle on the field of battle that the enemy has crafted for their own benefit they have relenquished the fight before even engaging. They are, indeed, the STUPID party. Enough. Time to go.
Young people have been becoming more prolife, and non whites are more prolife than whites.
In U.S., Nonreligious, Postgrads Are Highly "Pro-Choice"
Special Report: 3.4% of U.S. Adults Identify as LGBT - Inaugural Gallup findings based on more than 120,000 interviews LGBT is lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender.
But Gallup can be tricky with polls like this.
The Kids Aren’t All Right: New Family Structures and the “No Differences” Claim
If you check any link, check the last one.