Yeah, I've never understood why more religious people in this country don't feel that way. It's clear to me, and it's been clear to a lot of people, that politics is about (a) compromise and (b) making money, and neither of those things meshes very well with my idea of Christianity. Maybe there are other religions it would mesh with, but none of them have nearly the power of the Christian Coalition in this country.

Or maybe the set of religious people who "get it" overlaps considerably with the set of people who realize that a certain level of chattering indiscriminately about the depth of one's faith to the public at large is approximately as rude as announcing, to everyone who'll listen, how much money you just spent on a house, and hence heathens like me just don't hear much about it. (I guess my bias, having been raised Catholic, is obvious: it's what a person does that counts, and what she says about what she does can only detract from it. I think Catholics are wrong about a lot of things but I'm pretty sure they're right about that.)