Why Pandering to Conservative Evangelicals Is a Bad Idea

Because good little sheep never leave the herd.

At a meeting Tuesday in Denver, about 100 conservative Christian leaders from around the country agreed to unite behind the candidacy of John McCain, a politician they have long distrusted, marking the latest in a string of movements that bode well for McCain's general election prospects among the Republican base.

"Collectively we feel that he will support and advance those moral values that we hold much greater than Obama, who in our view will decimate moral values," said Mat Staver, the chairman of Liberty Counsel, a legal advocacy group, who previously supported Mike Huckabee's candidacy.

…A second person who attended the event, but asked not to be named, said that the group was motivated principally by a desire to defeat Barack Obama. "None of these people want to meet their maker knowing that they didn't do everything they could to keep Barack Obama from being president," the participant said.

Those are people who cannot be won over, not with all the faith-based bullshit in the world.

Every election, it's the same thing—the highly-paid Democratic strategists with their careful calculations and rhetoric about delicate balances and weighing just how many more secular progressives (by which I mean atheists, agnostics, and religious people who firmly believe in a secular public sphere) they can afford to alienate to pick up those frustratingly elusive conservative evangelicals.

I really wonder when the Democrats will finally realize that there isn't a price you can pay for these idiots and still be a Democrat.