[Antoninus]

The Fundies are notorious for taking their ball and running home if we don't play their game the way they like.

You've just put your finger on something very important. You've apparently figured out that you can't keep spitting in religious conservatives' face and stil expect them to support you. Where the disconnect comes in is that you seem to think that religious conservatives should continue to support Republicans who are so openly disdainful of them. Why would any group with significant political clout do that??

It's really simple. If you want the votes of religious conservatives, you've at least got to act like you don't hate them...

[Lunatic Fringe]

Where the disconnect comes in is that you seem to think that religious conservatives should continue to support Republicans who are so openly disdainful of them.

Wrong! I want the religious conservatives to get the hell out and form their own party.