Vaughn also indicates that he sees a coming disappointment among the most theocratic of the Religious Right, that this Bush administration actually DOESN’T champion what THEY think he does. He is USING them and incorporating some of their talking points in order to feign alliance, but the Neocons are NOT the bastions of spiritual attentiveness as they have allowed themselves to believe.
The problem, I think, is that the Religius Right has allowed themselves to go all “ga ga” at every little pious phrase that Bush so carefully includes in his stump speeches. There seems to be a tendency for piety over policy. I have often maintained that Bush woulod lose a signigificant portion of his “evangelical” advantage if they but knew the actual policies which they have employed, all the while talking an apparently different story (one which is more “digestable”, and thus less likely to cast doubt on the discrepency between what they SAY and what they DO.
Evangelicals will no doubt find themselves frustrated and disillusioned by the politics of the nation state. And along the way, they will have traded their distinctly “Christian” identity and witness for something alien to the politics of Jesus.