Do the "values voters" have their own third party?

[tjwash]

I mean a real, live organized one like the Greens have their own third party that represents their interests. Do the ultra conservative "values voters" have a third party of their own? A party that is organized enough to get on the ballot every election year November and give them a real candidate for them to cast their votes for?

The only reason I ask, is because it seems one of the questions on talk radio shows, and a few times on the Ed Shultz show the past couple of weeks has been "if the values voters jump the conservative ship in light of recent events, should the progressives take them on board?"

All I could think of is "Why?"

I know we are supposedly a "big tent," but come on-pandering is pandering. Especially if it is so completely transparent as to even want any votes that would be cast from a group that is so precisely opposite in ideology from progressive thought.

If we are so concerned with where the vote from the ultra right "onward christian soldiers-turn America into a theocracy-run everyone who is not a christian out of the US-herd all gays into concentration camps" crowd, why don't we simply help them form their own third party that represents all of their interests and give them a place to cast their votes for?

Just a random thought after a long road trip into the heartland the last three weeks...