[goldstategop]

Arianna is a liberal ditzy - but she's right about one thing: social conservatives are the GOP's blacks. They're fine for getting out the vote but the party establishment is embarrassed by them. They just can't stand people of faith and their agenda.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[steve-b]

The problem is that the GOP hasn’t followed through on its anti-Big-Government rhetoric. As a result, the Huckabee crowd has the dysfunctional belief that the guvmint can fix things for them.

[jdub]

They just can't stand people of faith and their agenda.

I think it is that they alienate a lot of voters who don't want religion shoved down their throats, but otherwise support conservative ideals. I know a lot of people who have very conservative principles but who still vote dem because they view Republicans as Christian oppressors.

[misterrob]

Their agenda is fine as long as it does not involve using government to advance their own social agenda. When they do that then they are not all that different than liberals who want to use government to solve their imagined problems.

[Cicero]

Arianna is a liberal ditzy - but she's right about one thing: social conservatives are the GOP's blacks. They're fine for getting out the vote but the party establishment is embarrassed by them. They just can't stand people of faith and their agenda.

That's just about what I was going to say. I would only add that people like Huffington don't know the difference between Pat Robertson and Elmer Gantry, the real thing and the fakes. And I have concluded, despite some testimony by Freepers to the contrary, that Huckabee is a fake.

But to be fair to Huffington, your average Country Club Republican wouldn't know the difference between someone with real religion and someone who was faking it any more than she does. In their eyes, it's all scary and bogus. Not even Mother Teresa can get through to someone like Andrew Sullivan.

[Between the Lines]

Arianna is a liberal ditzy - but she's right about one thing: social conservatives are the GOP's blacks. They're fine for getting out the vote but the party establishment is embarrassed by them. They just can't stand people of faith and their agenda.

If a leftist like Arianna can see this, why can't we?

[reflecting]

so very true..... but despite all the heat George Bush is taking from the right he did in fact place conservatives on the SCOTUS. So who is really the friend to the evangelicals?