Threatening the GOP

The religious right heavyweights are upping the anti-Giuliani talk.

Perhaps this will hurt Giuliani's campaign, though if issues of "electability" or whatever were going to stop him from leading in the polls, you'd think the campaign would have imploded, you know, as soon as the controversial, prickly, generally unsavory candidate declared.

At any rate, I'm more interested in the Democratic takeaway--will they get the message that winning actual conservative religious votes is not as simple as establishing themselves as no more hostile to religion than this cycle's crop of Republican front-runners?

I'm also interested in Gov. Huckabee's response, should he choose to do so at all. I tend to react to him the same way many evangelicals do to Sen. Obama--I may disagree him on many of the issues, but I appreciate his attitude and his ability. But this could be a tricky spot for him--if forced to distance himself from either the party establishment or the religious right, each of which he needs and will continue to need in his career, which will he choose? He's not much of a question avoider or triangulator, so could be interesting...