Republicans Sign Brief in Support of Gay Marriage

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mrstickball said:

badgenome said:

mrstickball said:
If the Republicans would drop the social crap, and try to limit the size/growth of government, they would easily start besting the Democrats in federal elections. Why they pander to the religious right, I have no idea. Its not like that group is suddenly going to go Democrat any time soon.

This assumes that Republicans are genuinely in favor of limiting government, and that there are more votes for them pandering to libertarians than to social conservatives. I'm not at all sure that either of those is the case.

I think that there are a few republicans that genuinely want to reduce/limit the size of government. However, they usually get ostrasized by the mainstream GOP. I have no doubt that guys such as Rand Paul and Justin Amash are genuine. However, they seem to be outside of the mainstream (unfortunately).

Neither Paul nor Amash are Republican, they are Libertarian's.

Traditional Republicans are not as socially conservative as the current Republicans are.  When Republican stalwarts such as Reagan and Lincoln would not fit into the current Republican party, you can bet Republicans have moved right of their own ideals.