His hubris in speaking so plainly only underscores for me the absolutely duplicitous lip-service paid to faithful Christians by the "Christ is my favorite philosopher" crowd.
Believe it or not, not all Christian consciences are desensitized such that they rejoice in Big Brother's proffer of partnership or mistake Bush's decision on ECSR for some sort of "winning" compromise.
The "stay-away" Christians are likely those as yet have their primary loyalty to Christ rather than the GOP.
I realize the GOP would like to subvert the faithful the same way the DNC and Israel have claimed primary loyalty of all but traditional Jews but there will always be those of us who resist the urge to place our faith in some Cult of Personality or rabid nationalism.