the democrats didnt lose this election because of hate-filled anti-christian screeds or anything similar.  it wasnt til 'moral values' suddenly popped up in exit polls across the country that the apparent became obvious.  it wasnt a secret there were 11 states fielding defense of marriage amendments; the kerry campaign was too focused on what it believed to be the 'real' election, too distracted by its attempt to outmaneuver the diversionary swiftboat attacks and too determined to score big in the debates to pay them sufficient attention.  it was a good ol fashioned sandbagging.

someone coldcocks you, chances are youre gonna be disoriented for a bit and easily provoked into striking out blindly if the attack continues. and youll get angry when you can least afford it. they anticipated that reaction and are encouraging it by reversing roles and logic a full 180 thru-the-looking-glass degrees to proclaim themselves victims of a rage-crazed mob of pagans. blind to its own failures and determined to avenge itself at god's expense by disenfranchising and persecuting his people.

as long as their guys accept that nonsense, theyve got power.  if the democrats buy into it as well, theyve got even more power.  to stop bleeding power, democrats need to wise up, stop listening to the doubletalk--much less validating it by attempting to reason the unreasonable--and begin taking a very close look at the network the religous right has been assembling inside the republican party on a state by state basis for the past 25 years.  until they know what theyre dealing with, the democrats cant afford anger or any other indulgence/distration unless ya wanna wake up 10 years from now as a newly baptized soulizen of the world's newest theocracy.