jimmyt, I am sympathetic to the idea of being fiscally conservative and socially liberal, but I don't see how the current bosses of the GOP can claim to be fiscally conservative. They are basically promoting welfare for the multinational corporate elite at the expense of everyone else.

How you they (or you) justify the huge deficit they've run up, after boogeyman Clinton left an equally-large surplus less than four years ago?

If the Republicans weren't able to base their campaigns on an appeal to fundamentalist fear and superstition, they'd be in big trouble. As it is, they have millions of very nice God-fearing people regularly voting for them and against their own economic self-interest.