With the conventional wisdom saying Bush won re-election because of a surge of Evangelical voters, right-wing extremists everywhere are feeling they have a right to moralize on us all.
Good. Let them. Let them speak MORE freely. The MORE they try to tell people what to do, the more they will isolate civil & social libertarians, a demographic Democrats must make their own (see Montana Dem Landslide). Let's see how far Bush will pander to them, or see how upset they get when he doesn't.
Either way, someone ain't gonna be happy.
We need 3rd party right-wingers running in all close races. They would force the GOPer to politic, while the DEM could just state opposition to the extremers. In every debate, the GOP and right-winger would have to say just how "religious" and "godly" they were.
And this is how we win the "values war". Pandering is what looks bad. You lose all the points of those against you, and others who might agree with you, are turned off by pandering. Just have a disagreement with someone, and say why.
Perot won us the election in '92, not Clinton. But Perot's appeal was to a different faction of the GOP. However, with the current religious "zeal", the Constitution party, or some new party, must get money and candidates in all the '06 and '08 cycle national elections.
Remember, Clymer in PA senate took four percent of the total vote.
John Kerry could have used a 3rd party right-wing extremists to take away 4% of the total vote.
We need to re-build ourselves, while attacking their flank. Start a web site, organize some info. Clymer got 10% of the vote in some counties.