The religious right also represents more than just evangelicals. At the last election Mr Bush won the Catholic vote by snaring 72% of self-styled traditionalist Catholics. Private polls also suggest that he won significant numbers of Orthodox Jews. Rather than being split between the parties, religious people of all faiths are now pretty anchored in the Republican Party. A Zogby poll last November put the national figure for “religious traditionalists” at 29%, but they accounted for 58% of Republicans.
During the height of the Terri Schivo controversy this spring, secular conservatives were telling me, and other religious conservatives here on FR, that we were ruining the Republican Party, and that we should "take a hike." If we take a hike, the Republican Party is dead, or will be as dead as it was circa 1940. Republicans of religious convictions have had to bend quite a bit to accomodate the objectives of secular conservatives; they're going to need to learn to peacefully coexist with us, or there will be no conservative movement.
Fine by me. You quit with the ID crap, and I'll quit harping on religious displays on public property.
I always tell 'em "I'm not leaving, sweetie. If you don't like sharing a party with me, YOU move."