Social Security as a value

Bloomberg:

Phil Burress, who helped President George W. Bush win the battleground state of Ohio last November by leading the charge among religious groups to pass a gay- marriage ban, isn't pleased with the president's focus on Social Security.

"How come he's not stumping across America defending marriage?" said Burress, 63, an evangelical Christian and president of Citizens for Community Values in Ohio. "Marriage is a whole lot more important than Social Security."

Even more important: gay couples living on Social Security that want to get married.

Now I doubt evangelicals will flee the Republican party over something like this. But is does show that the President is having a hard time converting even his followers on Social Security. And this actually makes sense if the church is actually looking out for the congregations well being. Retirees go to church, and many future retirees do as well.

So there is one of three ways this shakes out. 1) Democrats figure out a way to make Social Security more important that gay marriage as an issue, and these voters flock to the party because of it. 2) The religious right brings out their own candidates who will work hard on the social issues they see as important, splitting the right and putting Democrats in power. 3) It's all huff and no walk-out from the religious right and they stay with Republicans because without them, they have nothing.

My bet right now continues to be number three.