See? I told ya so.......

Over the past couple of years, I've talked (okay, okay, okay.....I'VE PONTIFICATED) over the belief that the Republican heirarchy secretly despised the evangelical christians who put them in power and was only using them to maintain power. Protection of Marriage? Prayer in School? The repubs couldn't care less about the issues, they only gave them lip service in order to keep the party in power. I never knew how to approach the evangelicals because, quite frankly, I could never put up with them long enough to keep the conversation going.

Well, I'm not the only one who believes this......it seems that frat-boy, smart-ass, twinkie-fed Tucker Carlson feels the same way...

here's the link

And a snippet or two for your enjoyment.....

CARLSON: It goes deeper than that though. The deep truth is that the elites in the Republican Party have pure contempt for the evangelicals who put their party in power. Everybody in...

MATTHEWS: How do you know that? How do you know that?

CARLSON: Because I know them. Because I grew up with them. Because I live with them. They live on my street. Because I live in Washington, and I know that everybody in our world has contempt for the evangelicals. And the evangelicals know that, and they're beginning to learn that their own leaders sort of look askance at them and don't share their values.

MATTHEWS: So this gay marriage issue and other issues related to the gay lifestyle are simply tools to get elected?

CARLSON: That's exactly right. It's pandering to the base in the most cynical way, and the base is beginning to figure it out

It seems to me that the hard question now is this: "Where do the evangelicals go if they abandon the Republican Party? For me, the answer is easy. They go back to their churches and try to change souls one person at a time instead of trying to codify their religioon into law. I heard on the radio today a report about the Amish in Pennsylvania who lost those five young girls in the school shootings. Those Amish consider themselves "spearatists" in the sense that they do not participate in government or politics on any level. They know and understand that their religion and government are meant to be separate. I don't suggest that evangelicals cease and desist from participating in public service, but they shouldn't do so with the intent of turning their religion into the law of the land.....they could actually learn something from the Amish....a small part of it, anyway.....