Frist may as well write off the pro-life voters. Lots of luck winning a Presidential election without them.
The Truth is that Frist was hanging by a string as it was. By alienating social conservatives to extent, he's just written off the only constiguency that hadn't crossed him off the list as a possibility. I'm not saying social conservatives feel the bond to him they do Bush or some other Republicans, but he wasn't on an adversary listing. Now he's joined in petitioning for the same voters McCain, Hagel, and others are fighting for. A small group as it is. Now, is Frist going to win those voters by doing this? Nope. They'll go for the real thing. He loses a significant portion of those that would at least keep an open mind. With this loss, all those that held their tongues but had written Frist off already, now have room to openly rip him to shreads because no one will rise to his defense.
Bad political move by Frist. And it was a political move. While i DO believe Frist has always favored this, he hasn't been upfront about it to the extent others have been. he's skirted around the issue, played the "nuance" game. That is the game of politics. It isn't the game of principle.
That is pretty much the state of Tennessee!!!!!!!!!!