GOP is urged to avoid social issues .

[sufrommich]

the group GOProud and leaders from groups like the Tea Party Patriots and the New American Patriots, will urge Republicans in the House and Senate to keep their focus on shrinking the government.

"On behalf of limited-government conservatives everywhere, we write to urge you and your colleagues in Washington to put forward a legislative agenda in the next Congress that reflects the principles of the Tea Party movement," they write to presumptive House Speaker John Boehner and Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell in an advance copy provided to POLITICO. "This election was not a mandate for the Republican Party, nor was it a mandate to act on any social issue."

The letter's signatories range from GOProud's co-founder and Chairman Christopher Barron — a member of a group encouraging Dick Cheney to run for president — to Tea Party leaders with no particular interest in the gay rights movement.

As of Sunday evening, the letter had 17 signatories. They include tea party organizers, conservative activists and media personalities from across the country, including radio host Tammy Bruce, bloggers Bruce Carroll, Dan Blatt and Doug Welch, and various local coordinators for the Tea Party Patriots and other tea party groups.

"When they were out in the Boston Harbor, they weren't arguing about who was gay or who was having an abortion," said Ralph King, a letter signatory who is a Tea Party Patriots national leadership council member, as well as an Ohio co-coordinator.

King said he signed onto the letter because GOProud seemed to be genuine in pushing for fiscal conservatism and limited government.

"Am I going to be the best man at a same sex-marriage wedding? That's not something I necessarily believe in," said King. "I look at myself as pretty socially conservative. But that's not what we push through the Tea Party Patriots."



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This will split the GOP. Maybe now the social conservatives will now realize they've been had.

[Jackpine Radical]

1. Congratulations.

You got "social conservatives" and "realize" into not just the same sentence, but the same clause without having to separate them with a negator like "do not."

Nevertheless, I'm sure the R's will be able to hang onto their drooler base by tossing them a few symbolic gestures.

[Cosmocat]

2. When they were out in the Boston Harbor ...

When they were out in the Boston Harbor, they weren't arguing about who was gay or who was having an abortion," said Ralph King, a letter signatory who is a Tea Party Patriots national leadership council member, as well as an Ohio co-coordinator.

They weren't argueing FOR corporate facism either, you mindless twit ...

The complete and total perversion of history with these clowns is stunning ... Even in casting off the social wedge issues, these clowns still don't get what the incident they are naming themselves was about ...

I got news for you skippy - it wasn't GOVERNMENT tea they threw overboard ...

Whisky

Tango

Foxtrot

[jwirr]

3. Shrinking government = social programs to the repugs. They will

not be able to stay away from them.

[Renew Deal]

4. ME ME ME

It is fairly typical that interest groups want their issue to be the priority.