(Sorry about that. What was I thinking? Back to rehab for me.)
Dan, speaking as a Christian rightist, I find the travails of the Christian Right made manifest by this political year to be perhaps the biggest political story going. I’ve never been able to figure out why secular journalists pay so much attention to the political pronouncements of the Roman Catholic bishops, given that almost no Catholics take their political direction from them (we are long past those days). I’m not an Evangelical, but I’ve been hearing from plugged-in Evo friends for the past few years that the media are out of touch with the Evo grassroots; they (journalists) think that James Dobson, Pat Robertson, et alia, speak politically for the Evo masses, but they don’t. We’re really seeing that this year, aren’t we? What’s more, the power of Christian conservatives over the Republican Party really has ebbed dramatically — something we’re also seeing.