oh, ffs.

shorter New York Times: the fact that our biggest guns failed to stop Senator McCain suggests that he needs to kiss our asses.

Also, have you noticed that his youngest daughter isn't blonde?

Special bonus: the article from Christianity Today they mention in the piece

The Web site of Christianity Today, the leading evangelical journal, declared Wednesday that the election results “exposed divides between evangelical voters and their spokesmen.” It noted that Mr. McCain had won a third of born-again Christian voters who ignored criticism of Mr. McCain by influential leaders like James C. Dobson, while Mr. Huckabee had dominated evangelical voting in several Southern states “despite little official support from conservative leaders.”

actually says this

Huckabee, despite little official support from conservative leaders, won five Southern states with large numbers of evangelicals. Romney, the preferred candidate of many high-profile conservatives, could not top either Huckabee or McCain in any Bible Belt state.

"Trying to pigeonhole evangelical voters by looking at a few leaders is probably a big mistake," said John Green, senior fellow in religion and American politics at the Pew Forum.

Data about evangelicals and Democrats is sketchy because exit polls did not ask whether voters were born again. Yet a February 4 survey from the Barna Group indicates growing openness of born-again Christians toward a Democratic candidate. Indeed, 40 percent of born-again Christians said they would vote for the Democrats' presidential candidate, compared to 29 percent for the Republicans'...

"One conclusion that you could draw is a lot evangelicals are ready to move beyond President Bush," Green said.

You know, that sounds like a wonderful bunch of reasons for a frontrunner whose wife and children were smeared with filth to come hat in hand to his assailants while he's winning.

Good luck with that.