Sentences with phrase «past social liberalism»

Most evangelical leaders insist their skepticism of Romney is born of his past social liberalism.

Romney's Mormonism and his past social liberalism have fed doubts about him among some evangelicals.

Before the election, many evangelical leaders predicted that opposition to Obama over his support for abortion rights, his personal endorsement of same - sex marriage and his vision of government as a force for good would trump reservations evangelicals had about Romney's past social liberalism and his Mormon faith.

Not exact matches

The robust and passionate social liberals of the past, from John Stuart Mill to L.T. Hobhouse and David Lloyd George, were well aware of this, but twenty - first century liberalism is a pale shadow of the liberalism of their day.

Guido Fawkes was amongst the first to suggest that this might be the most plausible outcome — the social and economic liberalism in both parties (the Cameroons and Orange Bookers) could be made to match (with some limits on Lib Dem tax policy recommendations), so the difficulties would be Europe (where they are utterly divergent), and Cameron's reluctance to negotiate on Trident renewal, criminal justice and sentencing, and electoral reform (the Tories are squarely in favour of First Past The Post).

In contrast, Cameron's ethical language of social life has resonated amongst many who in the past would never have considered voting for the economic liberalism of Thatcherism.»