...o please o please o please o please o please o please o please o...

[WilliamPitt]

Social conservatives warn Priebus they could abandon GOP
By Michael O'Brien, Political Reporter, NBC News

A group of high-profile social conservatives warned Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus in a letter this week that their supporters could abandon the GOP if the party seeks to change its position on social issues, particularly same-sex marriage.

Thirteen social conservatives, representing various influential groups, wrote Priebus ahead of the RNC's quarterly meeting this week in Los Angeles to sternly rebuke the conclusions of a post-election report that advised Republican elected officials to adopt a softer tone toward social issues.

"We respectfully warn GOP Leadership that an abandonment of its principles will necessarily result in the abandonment of our constituents to their support," concludes the letter, which was obtained by and independently verified by NBC News in advance of the meeting this week.

The letter further asks GOP committeemen to pass a resolution at their meeting this week re-affirming the party's 2012 national platform, which includes language calling for bans on abortion and same-sex marriage.

The rest: http://firstread.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/04/10/17691775-social-conservatives-warn-priebus-they-could-abandon-gop?lite

[niyad]

1. in other words, if you elected officials, who are paid by ALL the people, start resembling human

beings, our brain-dead, hate-filled, ignorant supporters will turn on you.

[Baitball Blogger]

2. Yes, but how do they feel about social security?

[valerief]

3. I guess 'high profile social conservatives' means wallets. nt

[Iliyah]

4. Just saber rattling.

The sociopaths from the right love power and money too much. They want total control over America so that they can have a religious, their interpreting of Christian, dictatorship.

[adieu]

5. Actually, I want them to stay with the GOP

The looney part of that party must stay as an albatross on the neck of the GOP. Drag that whole party down.

[Arugula Latte]

9. If they split the GOP will also be screwn.

Their coalition won't be large enough.

Yet, they wield power way out of proportion to their numbers.

Why is that, I wonder ...

[adieu]

10. It's not clear.

The TP wing of the GOP will always vote their way, intransigent as they ever are. However, if they're gone, a number of blue-dogs might switch to join the newly formed fiscal conservative GOP. If that's the case, it might turn into a 45% Dem, 35% FC-GOP, and 20% TP-GOP. That 20% then becomes king maker, and will essentially vote en bloc with the FC-GOP.

It's best to not have a third party involved so that enough people will be disgusted by the TP part of the GOP that they won't look twice at voting for any GOP candidates. In time, that will allow the Dems to gain to about 70 - 75% majority. That coalition, however, will be fragile and splinter into a left progressive and a center-right Democratic party.

[Sheepshank]

6. So they are reaffirming that their corporate influence will be withheld

and the voter will actually get a chance at electing by popular vote?

Hmmmmmm, I fail to see the problem here.

[AnotherMcIntosh]

7. To paraphrase Rahm, where else are they going to go?

[ismnotwasm]

8. Lol

You and these 'oh please oh please threads just make my day.

[starroute]

11. Gary Bauer, James Dobson, Tony Perkins, Phyllis Schlafly, Lou Sheldon, Tim Wildmon...

These are not just "social conservatives." This is the heart of the religious right, and they collectively have more dubious positions and occasional scandals than you can shake a stick at. If this is now the GOP base, the party has been even more coopted than I'd realized.