A tea party activist and New York Times bestselling author says conservatives in today's political climate must realize that moral issues unfortunately cannot be won at the ballot box.
Dr. Jerome Corsi believes the tea party will make a strong comeback in the next two years, as Obama's second term takes a toll on the American economy and the American people (see earlier story). But he believes the best way for the GOP -- particularly conservative Republicans -- to get elected is to concentrate on the fiscal issues.
"The tea party is going to have to move away from the moral issues," he submits. "We can't fight these issues out as a tea party; we can't fight these issues out as a conservative minority within the Republican Party."
Corsi points out that hot-button issues like abortion fire up the far-left base of the Democratic Party, when that issue must be won with the sonogram.
"And you say wait a minute -- these are the children that are being killed in an abortion? That's the battleground on the moral issues in conscience, not the ballot box," the conservative contends.
"As soon as you raise it as a ballot box issue, you've got all the radical feminists, all the people who are dead-set to kill their babies saying you've deprived them of their right to do so."
He adds that the moral issues are probably not winnable at the present time, but the fiscal issues are here today and must be solved.