Holier Than Thou

Browsing Ebsco Host for tales of Ted Sampley and Co.'s attacks on John McCain in the 2000 South Carolina primary, I came across this delectable little quote.

More broadly, Marshall Wittmann, a McCain supporter and former legislative director for the Christian Coalition, sees a Republican K Street elite and the social conservative establishment facing the same conundrum: their growing irrelevance. For years, Republican candidates kowtowed to them. Now the Republican mainstream is edging toward the center and the shock troops of the conservative movement have scattered. The Christian Coalition is in decline and Bush, the establishment's anointed prince, is scrambling to preserve his crown.

"You have the conservatives in a deep panic pulling out the most grotesque and obscene tactics," Wittmann says. "The K Street establishment and the conservative establishment are united in fearing someone who they can't control."

My how things have changed. Four years ago, The Christian Coalition is in decline, now --