The Dupont neighborhood is crawling with religious right fanatics attending the Values Voters summit. Haven't managed to get over to the festivities.
The media are all over the place too. Seems they are finding that there is not a lot of affection brewing for the GOP candidates today at the right wing hatefest:
Religious and cultural conservatives, a political force skeptical of the leading Republican presidential candidates, are caught in a tug of war between pragmatism and ideology.
"My head and my heart are fighting with each other," said Phil Burress, an Ohioan who has lobbied hard for federal and state bans on gay marriage.
The vexing choices facing these voters:
-Rudy Giuliani, a thrice-married New Yorker who differs with them on abortion, gays and guns but who polls show offers a strong chance to beat a Democrat next fall.
-Mitt Romney, a Mormon from Massachusetts who didn't entirely share their views in the past but who insists he now does.
-Fred Thompson, a Tennessean who hasn't been a vocal champion of their core issues but who had a right-leaning Senate voting record.
-John McCain, an Arizona senator who has a clear socially conservative resume but who dismissed their leaders "agents of intolerance" in 2000.
-Mike Huckabee, a Southern Baptist minister and true believer who has an extraordinary hill to climb for the nomination.
Tough times for the fundies. They've got no one to love.
But what about Duncan Hunter, who is possibly the biggest buffoon in Congress? Don't hear much about his campaign, but I did see what appears to be THE entire Duncan Hunter campaign parked on my street today:
