Knowing his way with words, he probably both is and is not at the same time. Don't ask how he does it though.
I was discussing this a bit yesterday with a coworker who had recently completed an article which proposed that Christians in the Repub party stop pushing a social agenda and focus instead only on economic issues. His suggestion was that the Christains abandon the party en masse so that people could see the remainder was a bunch of mercantilists crying, "Make me rich."
He based this on the evolution of the two major parties into a dichotomy in which one seeks to take private money for those who feed at the public trough (D) and the other, which has in reaction dedicated itself to protection of private money (in his opinion, to too great an extent wrt steel and lumber tarrifs, foreign energy interests, and tech interests).
I haven't had much time to consider this since we talked, and I'm sure we'll discuss it further today. Just thought I'd throw it up here and see what other's recations were. Need we begin concerning ourselves with the makeup of the R party before it's too late?