As Hugh Hewitt said last Friday, the great divide in the country isn't "conservative vs. liberal," that's too simplistic an analysis...It's "secular vs. religious." I've seen this on FreeRepublic this past week, and it distresses me. People who were united behind Bush last year, and now many of these conservatives are turning on the religious pro-life conservatives, some telling us the GOP would be better off without us.
I am a religious conservative.
I am also a person interested in practical results. And if the religious right doesn't generate practical results (or those results are adverse to the cause of conservatism), then the GOP is much better off without the religious right.
Also, kindly note that the people turning on Bush are the folks whining about Bush not engaging in impeachable offenses to satisfy their whims.
Some of these scions on the Religous Right scare me just as much as Hillary Rodham Clinton does, to be honest. There are some of those folks who DO NOT consider Catholics or Mormons to be Christians. Some of these "culture warriors" strike me as control freaks.
I didn't sign on to the conservaitve movement to exchange left-wing control freaks for right-wing control freaks.
They have been doing this for years. The current controversy has just brought it to your attention. The same crowd always finds some group to their right that they want to toss out of their Big Tent. And Hugh Hewitt is one who has acted this way in the past.