I thinkg the media has greatly over stated the opposition coming from evangelicals. In MI, Mitt actually got more evangelical votes than Huckabee and has had significant support from them elsewhere as well. The MSM wants it to be a big problem because that’s what their vision of what a Christian Conservative is: an intolerant hater. While they do exist, they are a minority and a shrinking one at that.
I hope that you are right.
The drive by conception of a conservative is a snarling liberal. That’s why they like McCain, Dole, heck, even Nixon was kind of a snarling liberal. I think it’s a liberal behavioral trope. If they have to accept a Republican, get a liberal one and then pretend to hate him. Take Bush. He’s no arch conservative, but they hate him like he’s Brother John Birch himself.