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June 26, 2005

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''I've got an e-mail list of 150,000 grass-roots activists...." said Gary Bauer, a longtime standard-bearer for the religious right.

[Low whistle.] 150,000, eh? Man, that guy could be president some day.

"...they were determined to speak their minds, in the language that their followers understood, when the time came to do so."

They'll speak in code (Dred Scott) so their followers can understand. We have to make sure to translate.

The theocrats have been holding their tongues and hiding in the background now for 25 years. During that time, they seem to have understood that being too public risked losing support for the Repubs. But it seems as though the whole "values voters won it for George" meme emboldened them in a way that has never happened before. It's hard for me to see them going back into the closet now.

And what will this mean to Frist? He's already invested most of his credibility into being a theocrat fave for '08. He's made it impossible for himself to move to the middle now. So how can keeping the theocrats under wraps coincide with his ambitions?

I don't know, but I'm sure he's waiting by the Bat-Phone, waiting for instructions on how to do it from th' Crawford Commissioner.

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