Good news for the gays!
Via McClatchy:
Today, [the Christian Right’s] nearly three-decade-long [ascension] in the Republican Party is over. Their loyalties and priorities are in flux, the organizations that gave them political muscle are in disarray, the high-profile preachers who led them to influence through the 1980s and 1990s are being replaced by a new generation that’s less interested in their agenda and their hold on politics and the 2008 Republican presidential nomination is in doubt.
“Less than four years after declarations that the Religious Right had taken over the Republican Party, these social conservatives seem almost powerless to influence its nomination process,” said W. James Antle III, an editor at the American Spectator magazine who’s written extensively about religious conservatives.
“They have the numbers. They have the capability. What they don’t have is unity or any institutional leverage.”
John McCain may be barking up the wrong tree…
Gregg
These religious bastards are sneaky. I would never write them off. Every time we think they’re powerless, they sneak up an fuck us over. So don’t get too comfortable thinking they’re gone.
hisurfer
I agree. This will be the third time their ascension has been “over”. It was only two or three years ago that we “won” the culture wars. I think we heard the same thing four years prior to that.
Matt
Absolutely we must be very wary of pronouncing the Religious Right dead and buried. The biggest threat we on the side of goodness face in 2008 is smug complacency that Victory Is Ours…we need to act like President Romney is a likely possibility all the way through November, or we’ll end up with President Romney and a Congress full of Reptiles.
Paul Raposo
The problem now is the Dems are getting the Repubs sloppy seconds, by courting the religious right. I guess they figure the religionists have to vote for someone, so it might as well be a Dem. Clinton, Obama and Edwards are the worst culprits.