The movement continued along after the defeat of George Bush for a second term and after a couple of years also helped to elect a Republican Congress. That movement has kept the Republicans in the majority ever since. But it is an uneasy coalition. That is because while most of the Constitutional conservatives understand and respect the positions taken by social issue conservatives, the reverse is often not true. The fissures have become more pronounced as the federal government has sought greater and greater power.
Constitutional conservatives are in a constant state of alarm.
Social conservatives don't see what the problem is. Thus when Elian Gonzales was seized at gunpoint by federal agents armed to the teeth and taken from relatives in Miami on Good Friday of this year, to be given to his father who was under the control of Fidel Castro, Constitutional conservatives were in tears, believing that they had witnessed the end of their form of government in this nation. But social conservatives cheered because little Elian was reunited with his father and that supposedly was a victory for family values. But social conservatives said that pornography is harmful to kids and if the Constitution has to be bent a bit to stop it then so be it because this social evil simply must be confronted head on. And when internet gambling was a red hot issue in Congress, Constitutional conservatives did not want to give federal authorities the power to look at your credit cards for possible gambling usage because once the precedent is set, the government will be using that power to look for lots of other things as well.