Family Security Matters: One of the supposed lessons that some Republicans apparently are taking from the recent electoral defeat is that the GOP should stay away from social issues and stick to fiscal issues. Putting aside the fact that this is pretty much what the Republican campaign did at both the national and state level, I see the dichotomy between fiscal and social issues to be false one. Furthermore, a large part of the GOP's base is more animated by social issues than fiscal ones. The idea that a party is going to have long term success by ignoring the concerns of its most passionate ground troops has never made any sense to me in the first place. I do understand the need to frame the issues in a way that reaches out beyond the base, but not to ignore them all together.
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