Religious Right Pretends They Weren't Pimping for the GOP

The religious right has been making a lot of noise and throwing a lot
of blame at the GOP for Democratic victories in the midterms. According
to the Biblebanger spin, Republicans abandoned their 'core values' and
people of faith made them pay for it. There's probably some truth to
that -- values voters wanted GOPers to ban abortion, stop the
'homosexual agenda,' and drive the godless evolutionists from America's
schools. What they got was top-heavy tax cuts, war, and corporate
giveaways.

Not really what they had in mind.

Another
factor was that the GOP leadership was just so awful that even the
robots starting asking what was up. From global warming to net
neutrality to the inaction after Katrina, values voters saw a party
that seemed to be completely unconcerned with the interests of the
people who'd elected them.

The leaders of the religious right,
whether because they were corrupt or self-concerned or just plain
stupid, were way behind their flocks in this line of thinking. But you
wouldn't know it now -- no, now they're the voice of the disenfranchised...