Nicole Belle at C&L posits a fine question... Why isn't the Christian Right sticking up for, what would appear to be, their ideo-religious, 'values' candidates - Brown and Huckerbee?
I would say the answer is manyfold however, one stands out as the obvious first best reason. Brown and Huckerbee are irrelevant, they fill out the numbers and keep the biases inherent within the republican party and those most attractive to 'values voters' at the forefront; gay marriage, American hegemony, female survitude, religious and ethnic intolerance etc., but are so marginalized on a national stage that they will never muster the money or primary votes necessary to mount a serious challenge to the hated front runner Rudy.
So the christianists, to remain relevant in the debate and indeed in this country's future must ingnore their own and flex a little muscle and petulantly threaten the republican party with a devastating vote extracting schism.
They really have no values, they merely want to remain a loud mouthed power bloc and maintain their caustic agenda at any cost, afterall, it's how the Perkins and the Dobsons of this world make their money.
The money quote is from George Will of all people:
Social conservatives should grow up. If they want to rally around somebody, why don’t try that? Huckabee needs support and money now. If the social conservatives are half as important as they think they are, they would rally around one of these people [..] And then decide what you care about. If you care about judges, then you’re gonna get satisfied by Giuliani, then get in line and play politics. But there’s a vanity in this group right now. They call themselves “values voters.” I’ve news for them: 100% of the American electorate are values voters; they vote their values…And this, this, kind of semantic imperialism that they have where they say “we vote values”. Everyone else votes what?
Teh Traitorous a few years back!
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