Reply #3: I think the game is to keep their less-sophisticated supporters

[Jackpine Radical]

THINKING that they want to create a theocracy, but the Repugs are actually the big bux party, beholden to the Haves and the Have Mores. The fundies are actually merely useful idiots whom the Pugs keep on the hook with their talk about God, Gays & Guns. In fact, the Pugs would be fools to give up the 3-Gs as campaign issues--then what are they toing to use as sucker bait for the fundies? So in fact, there will be rumblings about Consitutional amendments & the like, & some peripheral legislation (e.g. late-term abortions), but that will all be for show while the TRUE business moves right along: elimination of taxes on the wealthy, wars for oil, handing SocSec over to Wall Street, making things nice for Big Pharma & the HMOs (e.g. via tort deform), etc.