There are an awful lot of Republicans who view Huckabee and his ilk as shrieking religious fanatics bent on ramming Bibles down the throats of everyone in the country and imposing their own bizarre brand of religious fundamentalism on the nation. Sort of like the Taliban.

Lots of these voters are going to be driven to stay home, or to vote for an increasingly Conservative Democratic party over the next few election cycles. And the Dems are positioning themselves for just such an exodus, touting core Conservative values like fiscal responsibility and limited government; many have expressed exasperation at the Reid/Pelosi/Obama spending frenzy already, a sentiment which will find favor among voters anxious for some government restraint.

The party needs to flush it’s religious loons down the toilet if it wants to win elections. And the religious loons need to be reminded that their attempts to act out their zealotry are fundamentally anti-American.