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Social Conservatives Getting Worried

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Obdicut (Now with 2% less brain)11/22/2012 3:35:28 am PST

re: #224 geoduck

At the very least, the GOP has to run a “real” hard-core right-wing candidate for President (and lose) before anything will begin to change.

Romney was a really hard-core right wing candidate, he was just the slightly wrong flavor for the wingnut base to really embrace as their own. But make no mistake, he’s really wildly socially conservative, he’s completely Ayn Randian fiscally ‘conservative’.

Those people who fooled themselves into thinking he was moderate didn’t really examine his record in Massachussets that well. He said a lot of ‘moderate’ things, but in action he was very ‘conservative’. Even “romneycare”, remember, started out as a conservative-championed idea: making people buy health insurance was forcing responsibility.