Monday, January 16, 2012

Social conservatives

  • "Extremism is so easy. Youve got your position, and thats it. It doesnt take much thought. And when you go far enough to the right you meet the same idiots coming around from the left.
  • (Washington Times)
  • The Republican Partys steadily rightward drift, exemplified by the tea party movements muscle, keeps hitting a quadrennial paradox that frustrates social conservatives: presidential primaries.
  • (AP - msnbc.com)
  • Will religious social conservatives embrace Mitt Romney? Economics is absolutely a "moral issue.
  • (Intellectual Conservative)
  • Mr. Romney says he opposes abortion, but his opponents have jabbed at him for shifting his position over the years. Newt Gingrich is running an ad in South Carolina calling his rival the "pro-abortion" governor of Massachusetts.
  • (Wall Street Journal)
  • In an evolving power struggle, religious conservatives are feuding about whether a weekend Added a Gingrich supporter, a prominent social conservative who asked not to be named, "My view is that the vote was manipulated.
  • (Washington Times)
  • After a two-day meeting of some of the nation's most influential social conservatives at a ranch near Brenham, Texas, Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council said participants agreed that Santorum is a reliable conservative who can beat the president.
  • (Dallas Morning News)
  • Evangelical conservatives met in Texas this weekend and decided to throw their support behind former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum, but some fear the support is too little, too late.
  • (NPR News)
  • Prestige on the line Romney is not the ideal candidate for social and religious conservatives or for the new force within the party, the Tea Party.
  • (Minneapolis Star Tribune)
  • MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. — Rick Perry and Rick Santorum, two of the Republican field's social conservative heavyweights, made their pitches this morning to a crowd of evangelical voters.
  • (ABC News)

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