[Timber Rattler]

that "the Republican Party can afford to marginalize . . . Christian right leaders because evangelical social conservatives . . . are not going to vote Democratic."

That was the calculation they made with Romney and lost badly. Christian evangelicals won't vote for Democrats, but they won't vote for socially liberal Republicans either...they'll just stay home like last time. Same result---Rat win.

[JCBreckenridge]

But, I thought it was the social conservatives who were responsible for the loss, like always. Are you sayin’ it ain’t so? /sarc