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I think a lot of this has to do with the preception that the Republican Party is the party of the religious right, and well-off sophisticates or pseudo-sophisticates do NOT want to be associated with the Rapture crowd.

Also, the wealthy tend to be pro-abortion, which is another strike against a Republican Party associated with religious conservatives.

There are a lot of people who have a very exaggerated fear of the religious right, overestimiating its power and exaggerating its goals. Some people actually believe the religious right wants to force non-believers to convert to Christianity, or to somehow make membership in a Christian church mandatory for all Americans.

The points you make are valid. Rush has said the country clubber type Republicans by in large don’t want to be associated with “the Religious Right”, “the Pro Life” and the “Pro Gun Rights” elements of the Republican Party. They will look down their noses at them, in large part because they fear disdain and ridicule by the intelligensia of society and the PC crowd if it comes to light that they are associated with them. Yes, could be an element of fear and misunderstanding towards them, as you say, but Rush thought it was more wanting to be on the side of what is popular in the media and among the more elite among us, so as not to be identified with the “neanderthals” that comprise that disdained group. Pity.