After delivering his remarks at CPAC, Ralph Reed sat down with the PolitiChicks to discuss the lack of attention given to social issues like gay marriage or abortion at the conference. Reed said it was unfortunate that these issues did not receive more attention not only at CPAC but from Republican candidates in general “because I think they’re winning issues.”

These sorts of social issues “never go away,” Reed said, so any Republican running for office needs to just “plant your feet, stand and fight, and make it clear where you stand.”

What is particularly upsetting to the GOP’s right-wing base, Reed said, is that Democratic leaders like President Obama or Vice President Biden have no qualms about publicly declaring their support for marriage equality while “too many of our guys, they run for the tall grass even when the question comes up”:

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