Three strikes and you're out: on democrats and religion (strike 3)

Strike #3: the "if you can't beat them, join them approach." This position is better than strike 1 insofar as it recognizes that a politician in the United States today must draw an explicit link between religion (or at least value talk) and politics. It's also better than strike 2 in that it tries to give substantive content to a position, rather than merely giving examples of one's own religiosity (I was an altar boy, I go to church, I pray, etc). Strike 3's fatal flaw, however, comes from the fact that when adopted you've given up on your own moral and political convictions - the Democrat becomes a Republican.