By 1980, Reagan was a social conservative, if a less fervent one than Santorum is today.
But, you are also a Republican, and in addition to being a social conservative.
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The president has been signalling his support for a raft of social conservative causes.
"Yes, he's a strong social conservative, but he's not leading with that in the campaign, " Black said.
It is a heartening sign of centrists and libertarians breaking the social conservative stranglehold on the GOP.
Does that not sound utterly silly to anyone reading that statement? including any social conservative who might be?
However, they are understood and embraced by Tea Party and social conservative votes.
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Dawn Wright(ph) is a social conservative who says she's sticking with the incumbent.
Meanwhile, former US senator and social conservative Rick Santorum surged into third place.
Emmer was known as a social conservative who opposed civil rights for gay and lesbian people and opposed immigration reform.
Huckabee, a Baptist preacher, is using his easy manner to make a hard sell for himself as the only real social conservative in the race.
Being a robust and unapologetic social conservative does not hurt either.
He's an Evangelical Christian preacher, but he's not a social conservative.
But as a social conservative, he will struggle in the east.
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Rick Santorum, a social conservative who ran for president in 2012, said Portman's about-face was personal and doesn't reflect the party's broader direction on social values.
He is a charismatic check-the-box candidate -- a social conservative and a fiscal conservative, a pro-business Southern governor beloved by both evangelicals and the tea party.
His credentials as a social conservative on abortion and marriage equality and as a fiscally pure follower of Ayn Rand will certainly stimulate the right wing.
His hope is that she will continue to energize the GOP's economic and social conservative base while simultaneously closing the gender gap and buttressing his pro-reform image.
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As attacks go, this wasn't much: A couple of obnoxious blog posts and a tirade by a local radio host who runs a third-tier social conservative group.
He has done his best to prevent the Liberals from painting him as an austere social conservative, as they did successfully at the last election, in June 2004.
The obvious question all along has been what happens when the field winnows down to Romney, the irrepressible Ron Paul and a lone Tea Party and social conservative candidate.
Where Mr Trudeau was a cosmopolitan Liberal, Mr Day is a fiscal and social conservative, and an evangelical Christian who supports capital punishment and opposes gay rights and abortion.
That explains the growing fight over whether Mr. Santorum should have won the recent endorsement of a group of 150 social conservative leaders or whether the nod should have gone to Mr. Gingrich.
It was about finding a woman to appeal to those disaffected Clinton supporters and finding a true social conservative to appeal to the GOP base that has been so unenthusiastic about McCain.
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The "X" factor with Ridge is likely to be the reaction of the GOP's pro-life base: Ridge is famously pro-choice, and his selection would risk upheaval among the party's social conservative wing.
During the primary and caucus season, several social conservative and religious leaders secretly met in Iowa to find and support any other Republican candidate besides Romney, citing his faith as a major issue.
It's unclear whether Mr. Santorum can use success in Iowa to build a fund-raising network and breadth of support, beyond his social conservative base, that he will need to stay strong in the weeks ahead.
The social conservative was in the upstairs dining room at Doughy Joey's pizza lounge in Waterloo when he found out that a woman seated at a long table to his left was having a birthday.
So with a focus on the social issues, we're hoping that it will help to galvanize the base, at least around the social conservative issues and to get them more involved in the political arena.
But the markers Jindal puts down means he is backing social conservative positions such as opposition to same-sex marriage and the call for a constitutional ban on abortion that is codified in the party platform.
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