What is the future for social conservatives in U.S. presidential elections?

[Rockefeller GOP]

The Republican Party is now uniformly socially conservative, and they played a role in getting the party to be that way.  Whether it is Walker, Rubio, or Bush, social conservatives should be happy, and we can credit the tireless work of Huckabee, Santorum, and so many grassroots activists for that!

Ah yes, the fiscal moderates who feel they can call real Republicans "RINOs" just because they don't shout nativist drivel or oppose gay couples being able to adopt a child.

[Rockefeller GOP]

I think that it'll shift to just being about abortion now since as of yesterday gay marriage is a decided issue, though a few holdouts like Hucksterbee and Pope Frothy will continue pushing for a constitutional amendment most will recognize that it's basically a done deal.

The new "Big Three" social issues will be abortion (that one won't end soon, even if there is a partial or full overturning of Roe- which I think is likely in the next 5-10 years), religious liberty, and drugs.

Religious liberty is just being anti-gay, which the GOP have almost nearly done from the 1970's onwards

And Democrats did until 2009.  This issue gained momentum at an alarmingly fast rate, and thankfully it's over.