The left believes that the public is really, really stupid. A big reason they believe this is that they think that "Madison Avenue" and "Big Business" lead the public around by the nose, manufacturing demand for products that people don't really want, hypnotizing them into zombie-like patterns of involuntary money spending. They think that, if it were not for the pernicious hold that "Big Business" has over people, we would all live simpler, thriftier, more natural lives. They think they are the only ones who know this; that the average man and woman walking around are only dupes, tricked into believing the illusion that they posess free will.
Therefore, they believe, they can tell lies that a teenager could see through, and enough people will believe them that it will make a difference.
What they seem unable to accept is this: that, although there are some people who fit that description, this segment of the population already votes Democratic.
They the easily-manipulated ones are on the Right. Who remembers that op-ed piece in the Washington Post a few years ago in which the author opined that conservatives were prone to an irrational belief in G-d and were "easily led." Rush has spoken of it a number of times on his show.
Crazy Howie is just taking this view to heart. He really believes that if he just pays superficial homage to Christians and Christian evangelicals, they'll just nod their heads up and down and troop off to the polls this November to vote the Dems into a majority of the House of Representatives.
He must think we evangelicals are as blind as he and the looney left are. I think we recognize a phony when we see him/her.
Indeed they do. Furthermore, they believe that conservative values are mere feelgood wordplay, like their own plastic liberal "values." What they will never fully grasp, is that Redstate America actually has beliefs that matter to them.