Do Republicans genuinely care about Evangelical voters at all, or do they just want use them for political gain?  Exciting voters with like-minded rhetoric can win you votes in the short-term.  But when voters discover the real truth, there is usually a backlash.  That is what has happened ever since the Mark Foley scandal errupted.  Evangelical voters are finally figuring out that the party that talks a whole lot about faith and values has failed the truth test.

On the syndicated weekend program the Chris Matthews Show, conservative panelist Tucker Carlson, who lives next to a number of elite Republican strategists, admits that Republicans leaders have contempt for the Evangelicals and their movement.

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CARLSON: "The deep truth is that the elites in the Republican Party have pure contempt for the Evangelicals who put their party in power."

MATTHEWS: "How do you know that?"

CARLSON: "Because I know them, because I grew up with them, because I live with them -- they live on my street -- because I live in Washington.  And I know that everybody in our world has contempt for the Evangelicals.  And Evangelicals know that.  And they're beginning to learn that even their own leaders..don't share their values."

The Republicans are trying to play the same game that they played in 2002 and 2004.  Guess what?  This time around, Evangelicals aren't buying it.