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I think a lot of them would be happy to vote for Democrats on other issues. Once the contrast on social issues is gone, there's no reason not to. (I don't think they will seek out obscure third parties who they know won't affect policy, but maybe I'm wrong.)
The only national ban I can imagine is something after fetal viability, and it seems like that would be close to automatic but it hasn't been. But even prohibiting taxpayer funding is something to support if you're morally opposed, and it's something that Democrats don't try to ensure. It's something that could also fit under kind of a get the government out of people's private moral lives umbrella. You choose; you pay. I also think there's a position to be staked out for rights of conscience for health care professionals and institutions which might have white collar appeal.
But in some ways, it seems to me that we're kind of talking about issues dealing with branding more than substance. Image and identification are important, but the real GOP crisis seems to occur in office when there's no real sense of direction about policy or how to actually carry things out.
This may be even more obvious at the state level in Georgia where the geniuses in the general assembly were trying to do away with taxes that pretty much generated revenue at the county level, without any consideration at all for how counties would provide the services dependent on those funds and which the voters were counting on.
There's a fundamental crisis of competency before we even get to how to make the image more appealing.
Fortunately, although that's a ridiculous choice or words, from strictly a party loyalty angle, the Democrats seem to have problems equally as bad or worse right now.
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