Here’s David Brody’s take on how today’s New York Times story that insinuated John McCain had an affair (without producing any hard evidence) will affect the Arizona senator’s attempts to woo evangelicals: Obviously an article like this doesn’t help McCain among the conservatives he’s trying to win over, especially social conservatives. But let’s take a…

God-o-Meter just hung up with Shannon Royce, former executive director of the Arlington Group–a coalition of conservative Christian big wigs hell-bent on stopping gay marriage–and was surprised to learn that she had formally endorsed John McCain. Hardly a household name, Royce is nonetheless a very big deal in conservative Christian organizational circles, having served as…

It’s an indirect compliment, to be sure, but Southern Baptist Convention Public Policy chief Richard Land’s comments in today’s Tennesseean certainly seem to favor Obama: Of the two Democratic hopefuls, Land said that as a conservative Republican he’d rather see Clinton be nominated “because she’d be easier to beat.” “But as an American,” he added,…

John McCain’s victory speech on the heels of last night’s unsurprising Wisconsin win, which had the Arizona senator asserting for the first time that “I will be our party’s nominee for President,” featured none of the traditional values talk we’ve come to expect from Republican nominees. No mention of abortion, “traditional marriage,” judges, the role…

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