That Confusing Morality Thing

This today from The Daily Kof:

Immediately after the election, there was much speculation as to what would become of the "values voters" who were claiming credit for Bush's re-election. Of course, since then we've all come to realize that this term essentially referred to wingnuts like Falwell and Dobson, not some demographic which just happened to have more values in their souls than the rest of us. But what has become of these folks and their claim to dominance over the Republicans? Seems like a question all those speculators might want to answer at some point.

Granted, Kos doesn't necessarily speak for the DNC, but his blog is certainly aligned strongly with the current leadership. If anyone's getting the DNC talking points, its Kos. So many points to make about this:

1. The post-election speculation was not about what would become of values voters, but what would become of the current DNC leadership in light of the values voter. It is interesting that Kos is attempting to turn this around: An admission of the inability of the DNC to respond effectively to morality voters?
2. Marginalization is always alive and well (sick) in the DNC. Their attempt to marginalize the morality vote to wingnuts, then to take the man with the most popular radio program in the world and cast him as a wingnut, shows how impossible it is for the current Dem leadership to climb the morality mountain.
3. Categorizing all of us as wingnuts allows them to sign in relief that the morality voter doesn't have "more values in their souls" than those who espouse the sort of immorality that permeates the left side of the blogosphere.
4. Our "dominance over the Republicans" is an interesting concept. The Left fails to recognize that the more accurate phrase would be our "same-mindedness with the Republicans." Sure, there are GOP electeds that posture at morality, but by and large the GOP leadership is in leadership because it reflects the spirit of the party, and the party reflects the spirit of the morality voter.

People can only look at things through their context, through their reality. We on the right have an advantage because all of us were sinners and many of us were left wing sinners at some point in our lives. Few of Kos' readers were ever conservative, God-fearing Republicans. So they just don't, and probably can't, understand us.