Brody also reported that the Romney campaign has been quietly meeting behind the scenes with conservative evangelicals including Rick Warren, Richard Land, Gary Bauer, Samuel Rodriguez, and leaders from Focus on Family and Family Research Council.

The Brody  File is a regular CBN column written by David Brody, also author of the newly released book, The Teavangelicals: The Inside Story of How the Evangelicals and the Tea Party are Taking Back America.  In the book, Brody describes Mitt Romney's ongoing efforts to court Religious Right leaders including an account of an event hosted by the Romneys in 2006.

In a private meeting at his home in the Boston suburbs, Ann and Mitt Romney visited with more than a dozen evangelical leaders including Franklin Graham, the late Jerry Falwell, Richard Land, Jay Sekulow, Frank Wright, and Gary Bauer.  They sat in a circle and ate sandwiches while discussing topics like the fight against radical Islam, stem cell research, and Romney's Mormon faith.  It was by all accounts a pleasant meeting.  About a month later, all the evangelical attendees received a giant box. Inside was a chair with a brass plate on the back of it.  Inscribed on the plate was Romney's signature with the words, `There will always be a seat for you at our table.'"

Brody explains in the CBN article that Romney's selection of a vice presidential candidate and his use of more "pro-family language" will be crucial.

"As for the future, evangelical leaders tell The Brody File that Romney will go a long way to securing the base of the party if he picks a good vice-presidential candidate. Acceptable nominees could be Tim Pawlenty, Mike Huckabee, Bob McDonnell, Rick Santorum, Bobby Jindal, and Marco Rubio.

Also crucial will be for Romney to include more pro-family language as part of his stump speech. Many leaders feel he needs to conceptualize evangelical type issues as he goes around the country, including a defense of this country's Judeo-Christian principles and an explanation of the nation's fiscal crisis in moral terms."

Brody also describes meetings that Romney campaign directors have been having with other conservatives, including attending weekly gatherings in Washington D.C. with "influential leaders like Grover Norquist, Ed Meese, and Morton Blackwell."
Brody describes Mark DeMoss of the DeMoss Group as the Romney campaign's evangelical advisor.  I've written about the DeMoss Group, a public relations firm representing many of the major Religious Right entities, and the DeMoss family's foundation in a previous article about the dismissal of the growth of "Dominionist" ideology.

It was DeMoss who represented Romney at the gathering of Religious Right leaders in Texas in January 2012.  Brody describes the event as an effort to "coalesce around one presidential candidate." Rick Santorum came out ahead of Newt Gingrich in a desperate attempt by Religious Right leaders to nominate ABM (anybody but Mitt).

This has been a rough week for the Romney campaign, including being publicly lambasted by prominent conservatives Rupert Murdoch and William Kristol.  Will Romney now do the bidding of the Religious Right leaders who wanted "anybody but Mitt" only a few short months ago?