The American Spectator : AmSpecBlog : Daniels and DeMint

Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) makes the conservative case against divorcing economic and social issues:

BAIER: Some of your fellow Republicans - Mitch Daniels, the governor of Indiana, has suggested calling a truce on social issues while the country deals with the emergency economic situation. What do you think about that?

DEMINT: Well, you can't be a fiscal conservative and not be a social conservative. A large part of the expansive government is to make up for a dysfunctional society because our culture's falling apart. The family's falling apart."