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To: alanrs who wrote (278517)	11/4/2008 8:01:03 AM
From: carranza2	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793916

Good way to put it. Unfortunately, I fear we have gotten the candidates we deserve. The GOP needs to somehow find a way to reduce the influence of the evangelicals for one hugely important reason: The GOP pols simply do not live up to the principles the evangelicals embody. Thus, the GOP is seen as a party of hypocrites. The gay senator, Tom DeLay, Stevens, David Vitter and his prostitutes, the NY attorney general and his hooker, etc., etc., the list of GOP pols who betray family values seems endless. And the voters rightly see this as hypocrisy. And there is nothing worse in politics than to be perceived as a cynical hypocrite. The Dems, on the other hand, don't make such a a big show about family values so they get innoculated to some extent when their guys are caught doing what human beings routinely do. Ironically, one of the best qualified candidates, Mitt Romney, a guy who does indeed embody and live by family values, is rejected by the GOP largely because he is a Mormon, not an evangelical. The irony kills me.