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...straight into the heart of Christian evangelicalism and declaring, in a speech in Virginia Beach, Va., that "neither party should be defined by pandering to the outer reaches of American politics and the agents of intolerance, whether they be Louis Farrakhan or Al Sharpton on the left, or Pat Robertson or Jerry Falwell on the right." And then, for good measure, a day later McCain branded G.O.P. clerics "evil" as Bush went on to sweep all three Tuesday primaries by comfy margins...
Carroll said the late Feb. speech McCain gave in Virginia criticizing Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell appears to have hurt him, even though it was designed to attract voters in California and New York...
McCain has repeatedly shown a willingness to discard the support of the far-right evangelical leaders drawn in by the Reagan era, from last year's meeting with Log Cabin Republicans to this week's sharp censure of Robertson and Falwell...
...Tuesday, Virginia GOP heavyweights Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell gathered their flock about them, joined hands and smote John McCain. Thanks in large part to the support of the Christian conservative voting bloc, George W. Bush chalked up a nine-point victory in Virginia's Republican primary, securing all 56 of the state's delegates. Although Bush's margin in Virginia was somewhat smaller than what aides had hoped for, the campaign's good spirits were reinforced by substantial triumphs in North Dakota and Washington State, where the Texas governor scored among Republicans but lost the non-binding independent vote...
...registered with the GOP, Bush could easily triumph in multiple Republican-only, winner-take-all states, bagging all the delegates he needs. In the meantime, the Texas governor should take note of the electorate's weary attitude toward the increasingly nasty Republican campaign. Bush benefactors Falwell and Robertson might instruct him in a passage from Colossians: "But now you must rid yourselves of all such things as these: anger, rage, malice, slander and filthy language from your lips...