All obstacles can be overcome. Arrogance, not hypocrisy, is an enemy. You may adopt all the sins of the past as long as you adopt the rhetoric of the future. Be politically correct. On Sunday worship at an approved church, but during the week worship at the altar of tolerance.
Tolerance is the scale that weighs all actions.
It is all right, even desirable, to claim personal reservation against partial birth abortion, but follow with a sermon of how you will not stand in the way of freedom. From that point on ignore the issue of abortion and discuss human rights, the wisdom of the founding fathers, and the sin of intolerance. Do not voice a single original thought. Speak for the largest number of voters on each issue. Voters will tolerate your opinion in one thing, if you will agree with them on another.