] As the Senate heads toward a showdown over the rules
] governing judicial confirmations, Senator Bill Frist, the
] majority leader, has agreed to join a handful of
] prominent Christian conservatives in a telecast
] portraying Democrats as "against people of faith" for
] blocking President Bush's nominees.

Pandering by any other name ... utterly despicable.

I have struggled for some time to understand what's really driving the fundie side of this. Maybe they're just fascists. On the other hand, maybe this represents the death throes of that fantasy of the 1950s and that they see this as about to go away for good and are trying desperately to hang onto it. I can't figure it out.