Given the current economic situation, I personally emphasize fiscal conservarism -- but I will not turn my back on social conservatism. If CPAC is extending a hand to homosexuals, then that is a bad move.
The reality is that government needs to do less. We need less special legislation for special groups, and we need drastically less government spending. That kind of fiscal conservatism will lead inevitably to social conservatism. We can get there, but not if organizations like CPAC try to act like Liberal Democrats.
“The winnowing must be done.”
It should be done not by running, but by standing up and refusing to allow conservative organizations to be perverted.