Given that the current administration is the most Christian-oriented group in living memory, it kinda boggles the mind to see that Dr. Dobson and Richard Viguerie are threatening to bolt the party in the mid-terms because they aren't getting enough.
Considering that the chance of another card-carrying Christian getting elected president anytime soon is roughly zero, one wonders why they aren't pulling out all the stops to get more evangelical Republicans into Congress, not fewer. Bush is the best chance they'll ever have, and that chance ends in 2009.
Then again, maybe they'll stay home and the party will do OK anyway -- or even benefit by not having to alienate everyone else pandering to a narrow constituency. Then maybe we can get back to being the party of small government again. This tail has been wagging the dog far too long anyway.
Posted by Kevin Murphy at May 15, 2006 12:19 AM