Aunty M now I would say that Christianity has had very little impact on any political party. They are all selfish money and power grubbing corrupted jerks.
Now we are all corrupted individuals and there is no one who is blamless least of all me but we can certainly look at individuals and by what they DO ( not say) we can tell what they believe. I think it more accurate to say that the Political right is taking the religious right for a ride. They are using issues important to the religious right to get their votes then ignoreing thoes issues altogether or at least not doing anything meaningful about them. Take abortion for example. Everyone knows that Bush ran on an anti abortion platform but has he done anything meaningful on the issue? or the republican controlled congress for that matter. The truth of the matter is that the republicans are useing the issue of abortion to get the vote of the religious right then not doing anything about it for fear of losing the few cross over voters that they do have. I guess what I am saying it that it's a scam and it leaves the religious right out in the cold like the rest of us..