re: #409 Sharmuta

You presume wrong.

And Colin Powell isn’t speaking for the party, he’s speaking to the party. There’s a difference.

I fail to see how pushing social issues helps get back fiscal responsibility, BTW. It’s social issues that are killing the republicans. Many of us want fiscal responsibility, and if the GOP isn’t going to be the party that represents that, then I have no political home.

Absolutely. Reagan was pro-life yet his administration wasn’t defined by this position. He had the ability to ascend beyond the politics of personal destruction and parlay the focus on more significant issues. Allowing one to be defined as pro-this or anti-that on complex social and moral issues is problematic and given the challenges we face as a nation, everything else is secondary.