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I heard a moderate evangelical this morning on NPR. He was all bent because that great christian, Karl Rove had said all he needed was 5 or 6 million evangelicals to vote for junior and he would win the election. This guy was all incensed over it. He said it was high time that people, particularly republican people, quit assuming that a fundie was a right winger; that there were many moderate ones and that he was one of them.

It didn't sound good for george. This guy said that evangelicals wanted a conciliatory, diplomatic approach to world problems not the power driven, authoritarian kind. They like people who admit error. Well that sure as hell leaves our georgie out. He has no error.

The sad part is that this guy did have to say that evangelicals still believed in a tough social message on gay marriage and abortion and the like. But then that would be asking too much. I like the incensed part. He liked Kerry because of the quiet independence from the church and the value driven ideology. That's enough. I will take his vote and argue queer marriage later.