For example, in the "values" section of his campaign web site, he says he is 100% prolife;supports school prayer and governmental displays of the Ten Commandments, and opposes marriage equality and civil unions.

In his education platform, he strongly supports "local control," "parental choice," implying state funding support for religious charter schools and home schools.

Suffice to say, that the Cagle agenda, even the highly generic and carefully massaged version that tends to grace campaign web sites, is one consistent with religious supremacism of the Christian Right, and in opposition to basic concepts of religious equality and separation of church and state.

That said, there is a temptation to read too much into the outcomes of particular events, electoral contests, polls, etc. This is what I call the temptation to punditry. The pitfall of punditizing events as if they provide a clear window on the past and the future -- is to risk creating and believing an illusion.  The reality is that the religious right is broader and deeper than the fortunes of any one candidate; any one event; the outcome of any particular poll; the success or stumble of any religious right leader.

This is not to say that the entire Ralph Reed debacle was not a set back for the Christian Right as a movement. It was, and it is.

But it is not his primary loss that hurt the movement. It was how Reed became the poster boy for Washington insider corruption alongside Jack Abramoff. The allegations of money laundering.  His connections to a convicted pedophile . His odd alliance with the prochoice, pro-gay rights, serially philandering, Rudy Guiliani.

It was the conspicuous silence of Christian Right leaders like James Dobson, Don Wildmon, Pat Roberston, Tony Perkins and Al Mohler. This demonstrated that moral consistency is not a problem, as long as the hypocrite, is conservative, Republican and a prominent political leader who was once on the cover of Time magazine. (Seems like he merits a cover now more than he did then. But I digress.  The only prominent Christian Right leader I am aware of that spoke up about Reed was former Family Research Council head, Ken Connor.  

Now, it seems most likely that they are hoping that the Reed scandal will quiet down and go away.