But this campaign is going to be more about the litmust test issues of the religious right than anyone thought possible. Rick Warren completely sandbagged the liberals who thought he would act like the new moderate evangelical he was billed as -- wrong! He dwelled on abortion ("holocaust") and same sex marriage and never got around to climate change and AIDS.
I predict that Palin's Down's Syndrome baby will be one of the most famous people in America before this is over. In a truly perverse way, that child will be the standin for Terri Schiavo as an animating issue for the religious right; a narrative that embodies so much of what they say that they are about; and what they say Obama is about, like Pavone says, above. by Frederick Clarkson on Sat Aug 30, 2008 at 02:32:40 PM EST Parent