I put social issues above economic issues because I don't want my freedom threatened by a bunch of toothless rednecks and pasty white religious people. Every time you say "I vote conservative", and this is especially true for the last 12 years, you're saying "I hate you, and I never want you to be happy or have the freedom I take for granted". And don't argue that you're not doing this if you vote that way, because even if you're voting for the economic side (of which conservatism hasn't been employed for any of the last 4 republican presidents), the fact that you put keeping a cheap buck over the rights of MILLIONS of Americans who don't happen to live the same way as you do is juvenile, morally void, and, worst of all, harmful to the overall American populace. I'd rather have Obama compromise and keep half of his promises, but overturn the marriage ban and give me ENDA, than a republican who promises me Christian Family Values and a healed economy. There. Now you get why I'm inconsiderate.