Here's another brick in the wall separating the Christian right from the rest of the country. The Values Voters debate not only didn't attract the top four Republican candidates, but their failure to show antagonized -- and further marginalized -- the likes of Phyllis Schlafly, Paul Weyrich, Rick Scarborough, self-proclaimed representatives from "America's Largest Voting Block."

(If you don't know who these folks are, I recommend a visit to Talk to Action.)

Apparently they conducted a straw poll and Huckabee won overwhelmingly. According to debate's press release:

"The big losers last night were the no-show candidates Fred Thompson who placed at 4 percent, Rudy Giuliani and John McCain who each received 1 percent and Mitt Romney who was the only candidate to receive zero votes at the end of the night."

"How can we expect these no-show candidates to take on Osama Bin Laden and other world leaders when they're afraid to show up and answer questions from Phyllis Schlafly?" asked Rabbi Aryeh Spero of the Jewish Action Alliance, and Values Voter debate panelist. Rick Scarborough, President of Vision America, and Values Voter Debate Committee member added, "If you care about our votes, you need to care about our values enough to show up."

Or perhaps pollsters are doing some work and realizing that even most Republicans don't want this crowd's mix of privatized Social Security, increased funding for abstinence education, opposition to hate crimes legislation and attacks on embryonic stem cell research?