Lisa, I’ll agree with you there. Protecting traditional marriage needs to be part of a wider party strategy. That strategy should talk a lot about freedom, particularly when you consider the encroachments on religious freedom that have come up again and again during gay-marriage debates (or non-debates, when a branch of the judiciary makes the call on its own). Until a candidate can successfully present such a case on so-called social issues, foreign policy, and (goodness knows) economics, there will be no Republican revival in New York or anywhere.