I agree that this is the kind of remark Republican leaders should heed:

As a single man that has not found the right girl even at this late date, I am one of those that has been pulverising all that is private and delicate blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blaaaaaaaaah.

The problem with those that need to point out my failings is of course that they can't stop themselves. First it was gays, then single sinners and of course eventually, married people that are corrupt enough to venture beyond the missionary position.

The republicans would do well to recognize that this way of thinking is what most of us think of as "fringe".

Given a choice, I'll hang with the sodomites thank you.

It should be forgotten that a similar backlash saved Bill Clinton's ass from impeachment. The legal issue was perjury, but the wily Bill Clinton and his supporters spun the whole thing as sex -- because they knew moral conservatives were drooling over the prospect of indicting and convicting sexual immorality itself.

And so it came to pass that the impeachment pageant was about sex. Forced to "choose" between sex and its fringe opponents, middle America chose to hang with Bill Clinton. Not because there was broad public support for unlimited fornication, but because, as the nameless reader above makes clear, if they must choose between an accused fornicator and those who would condemn him, Americans will go with the fornicator.

It may sound "anti-Christian," but it's the American way.

(By the way, those who call it anti-Christian may be making a theological error, but Christian theology just ain't my job!)

UPDATE: David Horowitz (prominent conservative and ex-Marxist) understands this mechanism, and has been thinking along similar lines.