Bravo to Andrew Sandlin for writing the best thing I have seen yet on the "Christian paleoconservative" attacks on George W. Bush in his article "The Christian Conspiracy Against Bush."

In examining the attacks on Bush from some fringes of the Christian right, Sandlin observes that "what they wanted all along was not really an explicitly Christian president who takes a comparatively high view of God's law and tries to implement it as he can; rather, they wanted a paleo-con president who just happens to be a Christian."

Bingo. Thanks to Dave over at A Better Country for bringing it to my attention.