Matt Lewis: Santorum is right to focus on social issues

I enjoy reading and following Matt Lewis and agree with his column 

Why Republicans usually win on social issues (and why this helps Rick Santorum)

On CNN Sunday morning, Rep. Ron Paul, who — for all the “small-government” conservative talk — harbors an odd infatuation for Mitt Romney — implied that social issues are “a losing position.” In this regard, Paul, a paleoconservative (a nearly-extinct species most known for losing national elections), seems to have a short memory.

As Jeffrey Bell’s forthcoming book (per the Wall Street Journal’s review) notes,

Social issues were nonexistent in the period 1932 to 1964. … The Republican Party won two presidential elections out of nine, and they had the Congress for all of four years in that entire period.
. . . When social issues came into the mix—I would date it from the 1968 election . . . the Republican Party won seven out of 11 presidential elections.

Abortion in WA   laments  that the Republican party  and other conservatives are encouraging us to ignore social issues such as abortion in a down economy." These people never say just exactly when we'll know the voting masses will be able to handle social issues so that the pro-lifers can come back out of the closet. Is there some magical GDP number that means we can start protecting unborn children from genocide?"

Perhaps our national conscience has been pricked enough and we are ready to stand up to this injustice. The talking heads on TV are certainly advising him to avoid talking about these issues but I support Santorum and when he talks about the down side of the sexual revolution, he speaks the truth no matter how hard it is for us to hear. I am old enough to have witnessed it and what he says is 100% accurate. We have more sexually transmitted diseases (1 out of 4 infected) epidemic levels, more unplanned pregnancies, more abortions, more broken homes. Are we happier? Not by a long shot. Truth hurts sometimes.   This is why Santorum is ahead because he is saying what we know to be true even if some of us were late to the understanding.