The 'cute' truce on social issues

With word that political consultant Steve Waters, who played an instrumental role in Del. Bob Marshall’s 2008 Senate bid, is joining the George Allen campaign, it would appear, as Jim Hoeft writes, that Allen is “taking [social conservatives’] support very seriously.” Virginia Republicans have long had to take heed of social conservatives. But do national Republicans still have to do the same?

That’s a question we asked Victoria Cobb, president of Virginia’s leading social conservative group, The Family Foundation. My colleague Scott Lee spoke with Cobb about the “truce” idea broached by, among others, Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels. The general concept: put those divisive social issues aside and let’s focus on the economy.