Pic Of The Moment: Mike Huckabee Threatens GOP Split Over Gay Marriage

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24. They've stayed home before....they will again. And they may come out for the Dems, too!

For a long time, fundies didn't vote--they left all that to "God's will."

The GOP successfully motivated them--and other religious groups-- with Reganesque "moral majority" appeals, and they've been on the GOP team ever since...but before that, religious people could actually be motivated towards a very liberal POV by "social justice" issues (the Berrigan brothers, and other Jesuits, for example, during the Vietnam war, to say nothing of MLK and other influential black pastors--you can't get more liberal than those guys).

Religious people have been on the "liberal" team before--and with the right marketing, they could be again. These foolish 'no one's business' faux wedges that the GOP keep trying to shove at people and demand they get upset about them (abortion, equality, e.g.) just don't have the same shock value appeal that they did when they were first brought forward into the national conversation...but poverty, hunger, illness--all those things that actually were discussed in the Bible and are still a problem both here at home and around the world--are still with us.

The smart political tactician will take those elements and run with them--and capture the fundy flag, as it were.