Faustian Bargain

I've mentioned before that McCan't sold his soul to the devil to win this election: the devil in this case being the Evangelical hard-core right wing of the Party. Here's Time Magazine's take on it:

Palin's red-meat conservatism and Evangelicalism will almost certainly play well with those party faithful who attended the Republican National Convention this week. But with fewer than 60 days until Election Day (and a month before the start of early voting in many states), the McCain campaign's continued courting of the more traditional base spells trouble for any efforts to expand his appeal to independent voters and less conservative Evangelicals. If so, McCain may find himself quoting a bowdlerized verse of Scripture in November: What does it profit a man to gain the Christian right and lose the White House?

Indeed. I'm not so sure that they have it right on the younger Evangelicals, but independents are going to get turned off by more of the same Bush/Cheney crusaderism that is beginning to characterize the McCan't campaign. This may spell trouble for the ol' grandpa and his nurse.