Guilty by "Evangelical"
A recent editorial defending evangelical Christians piqued my interest. It confronted a loaded polling question asking respondents whether they'd vote Conservative if it was overrun by evangelical Christians. Bruce Clemenger from the EFC regarded this portrayal of evangelicals as too narrow, since they are a more diverse religious and political group.

However, this really misses the point. The term "evangelical" is primarily defined as "non-mainline conservative Protestant (including fundamentalists)", like it or not. Moreover, even though some evangelicals don't vote right-wing, those who do are the issue.

Consider the example of Stockwell Day, former leader of the Canadian Alliance. He proclaimed his political message in evangelical Christian churches, and had an evangelical following. (This included Western Canada, where a major part of Conservative voters are.) Apparently Canadian evangelicals underestimate the legacy of the Moral Majority/Christian Coalition in the States. (Remember Pat Robertson?)

So perhaps a better issue for evangelicals to confront is, without blaming the media or political parties:

When does being politically conservative and evangelical Christian sabotage either, and what can be done about it?

Isn't that the point?