The religious right has been making a lot of noise and throwing a lot of blame at the GOP for Democratic victories in the midterms. According to the Biblebanger spin, Republicans abandoned their 'core values' and people of faith made them pay for it. There's probably some truth to that -- values voters wanted GOPers to ban abortion, stop the 'homosexual agenda,' and drive the godless evolutionists from America's schools. What they got was top-heavy tax cuts, war, and corporate giveaways.Not really what they had in mind.
Another factor was that the GOP leadership was just so awful that even the robots starting asking what was up. From global warming to net neutrality to the inaction after Katrina, values voters saw a party that seemed to be completely unconcerned with the interests of the people who'd elected them.
The leaders of the religious right, whether because they were corrupt or self-concerned or just plain stupid, were way behind their flocks in this line of thinking. But you wouldn't know it now -- no, now they're the voice of the disenfranchised...
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