Wasn't it in 1992 that the evangelical movement in GOP politics was declared "dead??? Remember, we're dealing with a vast populace which has been entertained into submission and a populace which largely have been educated on a rout learning/fact-based basis -- void of critical thinking skills. Two years is a lifetime in American politics....memories are short and the next group of Tom Delays and Ralph Reeds are just waiting for their turn to start the next Republican Revolution. Also, I'm not sure that the Foley scandal will have the a total bombshell effect....the right wing media machine is frantically trying to spin this in every way imaginable: that there's a "cadre" of homosexual politicians who were trying to protect Foley....to the bizarre theory from James Dobson that naughty teenage boys are to blame.

At this point I'm more concerned about electronic voting corruption. There's so much on the progressive agenda...but paper-ballot initiatives should be job #1. We can't be endlessly diverted by the right's "culture wars."

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Not surprisingly, this has made not a bit of difference with die-hard evangelical voters - at least not enough to make a difference in November. There are still enough of them manning phones, stuffing envelopes, and talking in their churches about the evils of same-sex marriage and abortion, etc. Not enough is being said about how BushCo has been using them for their own ends.

The Rove propaganda machine is quite powerful, as we've all seen. It has sucked up many different people into it that have lots of influence and hundreds of millions of dollars. Those people have already climbed on board their control wagon. That makes them extremely powerful with respect to the 'regular voter'. That includes evangelical voters.

Kuo has opened up a can of worms, yet the polls prove that those people who tend toward herd mentality and us vs. them thinking structures will continue to vote Rethuglican NO MATTER WHAT. After all, they don't really care about reality. What's most important is their mythology and the survival of said mythology.

Just because Kuo has exposed the Bush admin for who they really are with respect to their real religious beliefs, it has MADE NOT AN IOTA OF DIFFERENCE in what voters will do in November. No sea change can occur because the Bush Team has already divided the nation substantially enough to make sure they will win. And the Dems have no interest in framing issues in such a way to make this a SERIOUS enough issue for them to win.

Don't forget. BushCo has successfully proven that tax cuts are the most important thing on the minds of Republican voters. The only way to help the needy and the poor in this country is to raise taxes and the Republicans know that. That will not happen as long as Rethuglican voters go to the polls in enough numbers. And they have the numbers.

When November comes, and the Rethuglicans have won once again, and they win because of good Christian churchgoers, they will prove once and for all that their money is NOT where their mouths are. The rich/poor divide in this country will grow wider. The churchgoers will blame the victim (eg, the poor are poor because they're bad and sinful) because they have no interest in actually reading the Bible to discover what Jesus said about the poor. Only Bush can tell them what's in the Bible now.

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