Avoid social issues, GOP urged

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A Gay conservative group and some Tea Party Leaders are campaigning to keep Social Issues off the Republican agenda. In a letter to be released Monday, 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 ag...

GOProud Urges GOP To Ignore Religious Right's Agenda
There only thing that angers the Religious Right more than being told that their Social Issues Agenda does not matter is seeing the GOP downplay their Social Issues Agenda in order to appease other parts of the conservative coalition. A Gay conservative group and some Tea Party Leaders are campaigning to keep Social Issues off the Republican agenda. In a letter to be released Monday, the group GOProud and Leaders from groups like the Tea Party Patriots and the New American Patriots, will urge Re...

Tea Party Groups to GOP: Stay Away From Social Issues, Please (The Atlantic Wire)
Washington, DC – The Tea Party vote helped Republicans retake the House. So congressional Republicans can count on Tea Party support for their whole agenda, Right? Wrong. A letter to presumptive Speaker John Boehner and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell urges Republican legislators to concentrate on foundational Tea Party principles--smaller Government, lower taxes--and to sidestep divisive Social Issues like Abortion and Gay Rights. Analysts are pointing out that the letter, signed...

Republicans Urged To Avoid Social Issues
A Gay conservative Group and some Tea Party Leaders are campaigning to keep Social Issues off the Republican agenda. In a letter to be released Monday, 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 age...

Tea Party Groups to GOP: Stay Away From Social Issues, Please (The Atlantic Wire)
Washington, DC – The Tea Party vote helped Republicans retake the House. So congressional Republicans can count on Tea Party support for their whole agenda, Right? Wrong. A letter to presumptive Speaker John Boehner and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell urges Republican legislators to concentrate on foundational Tea Party principles--smaller Government, lower taxes--and to sidestep divisive Social Issues like Abortion and Gay Rights. Analysts are pointing out that the letter, signed...

Memo to GOP: Ignore the Gays
During the course of the 2010 campaign, I was working on a blog post/op-ed with the title I use for this post.  But, as I followed the messages of Republican Candidates across the country, I realized that, well, they had already gotten the message.  It didn’t seem necessary.  And since it wasn’t a winning issue in the campaign, it shouldn’t be a defining agenda when the 112th Congress convenes in January. Thanks in part to the unpopular, big-government initiatives of the O...

Tea Party Leaders Release Letter Urging House and Senate GOP to Avoid Social Issues
(Washington, D.C.) - Today, a Group of Tea Party Leaders and Activists released the following Open Letter to Rep. John Boehner (R-OH) and Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY). The Letter urges Republicans in Congress to avoid Social Issues and focus instead on Issues of economic freedom and individual liberty: 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 prin...

Tea Party Patriots Urge GOP Congress to Avoid Social Issues
A Gay conservative group and some Tea Party Leaders are campaigning to keep Social Issues off the Republican agenda. In a letter to be released Monday, 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...

Tea Party Patriots Urge GOP Congress to Avoid Social Issues
A Gay conservative group and some Tea Party Leaders are campaigning to keep Social Issues off the Republican agenda. In a letter to be released Monday, 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...

Are Tea Party Leaders Destroying the Movement?
They don’t get it either. A few months ago I complained that the House Republicans were out of touch with the Conservative Movement. Turns out that many of the Leaders of the Tea Party are too. A Gay Conservative Group and some Tea Party Leaders are campaigning to keep Social Issues off the Republican agenda. In a letter to be released Monday, the Group GOProud and Leaders from groups like the Tea Party Patriots and the New American Patriots, will urge Republicans in the House and Sena...