re: For my daily jimmy rustling topic....

"fiscal conservatives" are often not mutually exclusive from evangelicals and establishment republicans. Most republican voters and candidates are some combination of the 3 divisions in the party (tea party (fiscal conservatives), evangelicals (religious right), establishment (chamber of commerce). The establishment wants it because it enables greater power and funding to police, more money to fund the prison industrial complex, ect. The evangelicals don't like it because they see it as immoral like alcohol, gambling, or Kevin Bacon. Seeing as most "fiscal conservatives" are also partially one of the other two republican archetypes, it means that only a relatively small percentage of that 1/3 of the party actually support legalization. However, that segment is rapidly growing now after seeing the positive fiscal effects and neutral social effects of legalization in places like Colorado and Washington.