Papist Quote of the Day

I'm going to break a rule of quotation and excerpt the last lines of Ross Douthat's thought experiment:

Hence the weird anger emanating from social liberals at the religious right's failure to tar and feather the Palins and run them out of GOP politics on a rail: they're mad that religious conservatives aren't fitting neatly into the stereotypes that liberals have spent years cultivating.

Read this to see how he got here.