The SoCons need to understand their interests have a seat at a Republican table, but none at a democrat table.
At a Republican table they don't get to sit at the head, and decide the entire seating chart, agenda, etc.
Example: Just 22% believe abortion should be illegal even for rape victims. Yet the SoCons now push their "personhood" paradigm.
Angle, Buck, O'Donnell, Akins, Mourdoch, Miller, Cuccinelli, just some examples of the "no abortion for rape" advocacy candidate group. What they have in common is losing winnable elections.