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Because they found that the public did not wise to proceed
at the same speed they were told conservatives desire.
 RP> Conservatives do not have majority status now, and still
 RP> are sitting on the sidelines, watching the liberals do as
 RP> they will. 
Nonsense - conservatives have the initiative and sit on
many committees as chairman - something they'll not have
nor do as a minority. 
 RC> If Republicans are to be a majority party and make any
 RC> progress in national politics then there is going to have
 RC> to be give-and-take between social conservatives, fiscal
 RC> conservatives and mainstream Republicans.
 RP> Social conservatives, without whom the Republican party
 RP> would not *be* the majority party, bought that line and put
 RP> forth tremendous effort over a period of a couple of
 RP> decades. Their reward has been the backing away on the part
 RP> of the party from those things that constituency holds most
 RP> dear. The track record is clear: for social conservatives,
 RP> that strategy is a losing one. 
Only because you deny the evidence before your eyes: that
incrementalism *works* and is in many cases *preferred* by
the public.
 RC> Much as you dislike the fact, a fiscally conservative,
 RC> pro-abortion governor is preferrable to a fiscally liberal,
 RC> pro-abortion governor.
 RP> How can Republicans be trusted to be fiscally conservative
 RP> when firm statements of principle on other issues are
 RP> blatantly violated?
And when two principles collide? 
 RP> My observation is that when someone abandons as fundamental
 RP> a principle as the "fundamental individual right to life
And Christy Todd Whitman ran on that? Or did she defeat the
incumbent by running on a tax reform and fiscal
conservatism issues - which she has upheld? 
 RP> which cannot be infringed", they'll also abandon any other
 RP> principle, be it fiscal, social, or a fundamental
 RP> Constitutional one, like the right to keep and bear arms. 
That's your opinion, and in no way binding upon the party.
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