mccain to set up committee of fifty to focus on religious voters

Let me know when McCain makes a Committee of Fifty to reach out to conservatives (H/T)...actually, upon reading it closer, this sounds less like a outreach effort and more of a "find evangelical leaders who will pick up the pom poms and cheerlead for Straight Talk Express" type operation.  As always with McCain, it is about McCain,

The list is still in development, but the bottom line here is that the McCain camp has no desire to start a dialogue with folks who want to beat up the senator over some of his views. They're looking for people who are open to listening to him, convinced that they will like what they hear.

So in other words, this is basically more of the same McCain.  McCain doesn't want to hear concerns or criticism from the evangelicals, he's just trying to reshuffle the deck in order to make "Hop onboard the Straight Talk Express, or you can go fuck yourself!" into something slightly more palatable for evangelicals.  It isn't so much outreach as it is an empty gesture to make it look like he's doing something beneficial.  A long career in Congress has made him fairly adept at that, I guess.

Let me put on my Allah hat for a second and ask an Exit Question:  How bad is it that Camp McCain feels they have to play this game with evangelicals before they feel they have to with conservatives?

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