Dick Armey on Newt Gingrich’s appearance on Jim Dobson’s show:

“Personally, I would not have gone on Dobsons show and made a confession of any kind,” says Armey, who counts himself a Gingrich admirer. “My own view of the troubles of the Republican Party is that there have been many times over the years that Republicans have gotten themselves in trouble with the electorate by trying to make the Jim Dobsons of the world happy. But it isnt possible to make Jim Dobson happy. His occupation is not to be happy. Why give him what he will never receive?” (Ever the Speaker - washingtonpost.com)

Republican’s obsession with pandering to evangelicals turns off a large portion of the conservative/libertarian independents. They tolerated it when Republicans were cutting government, taxes and defending the nation. But when the Republicans in Washington increased government spending and screwed up the liberation and rebuilding of Iraq, while spending their time being complete media whores over Terry Schaivo, that middle dropped them like the lying sack of …. they were.