Actually, I think we do convince some influential lurkers that creationism is not a good subject to politicize. It's obvious that it would split the conservative base, but bring in no new moderates.
Some prominent conservatives talked positively about ID/creationism when the subject first came back up some time ago. Laura Ingram, Ann Coulter, and others made some short comments that indicated they supported it. But some of them have specifically pulled away, and the rest are ignoring the subject.
The only actual ID supporter in the media that I know of is Michael Medved, who apparently has some close relationships with the Discovery Institute which started the latest round of this mess. And I'm sure that he's had an ear full, and hasn't brought the subject up again recently that I know of.
If we can just keep the Republicans away from this damaging subject, that's enough of a win to make me happy.
I hope your right. Otherwise it's an amazing waste of bandwidth (repeatedly...another new thread just popped up).