It's not hard to see, you're looking at it right now.
Let me be more precise. I don't see how Fred's attendance would have changed the attitudes of the alleged evangelical Christian leaders opposed to Fred. The alleged slight was pretense only.
My take: Anyone who crafted or bought into this Dobson/Values Voters attack on Fred is a phoney baloney Christian, a phoney baloney conservative or both.
With McCain's victory in Florida tonight, the death of the GOP and the conservative has drawn even closer. Yet some mindless, but faithful evangelicals are more concerned about whether Fred slighted their narrow brand of evangelical purity and their blind devotion to 2 hypothetical and losing constitutional amendment arguments.
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All I can tell you is that you are deep in denial. You may clamp your hands over your ears and sing "la la la la" all you like. You can rant and rave and call anyone who didn't support Fred a "phoney baloney Christian, a phoney baloney conservative or both", content in your happy little world of "Frederalist" devotion- But the rubber has already hit the road.
It is easy to see- Fred cratered, and Huckabee rose up right out of the basement. Something about Fred didn't gel with those folks, nearly every one of them Evangelical Pro-Lifers according to the press.
You may continue to deny what faithful Christian FReepers (myself included) said right here on this board, when they expressed their extreme dismay at Fred's overt snubbing of the Christian political cause, denying now, like many did then, what is so evident and apparent to us.
You may even forget that Fred's own campaign manager actually admitted that they had a lot of work to try and strengthen Fred with the Christian Right...
No matter how you cry and moan and gnash your teeth, No matter how you blame and spin the truth, you cannot deny the numbers.