G. Frink's

Suffering from "political Stockholm Syndrome," the GOP is hostage to the "oogedy-boogedy" social fundamentalists, write Christine Todd Whitman and Robert M. Bostock in the Washington Post today.

So the GOP must give up the rabid identity politics of the culture wars and all that evangelical money?

Stop laughing, Sarah. We know from your easy domination of the Republican Governor's Association meeting in Miami that you're still in charge. Yes, we do remember that you're a political offspring of the GOP's oogedy-boogedy, evangelical right. Yes, the folks who are holding the GOP "hostage."

Yes, Sarah, Whitman and Bostock are saying the GOP must free itself of enslavement to your primary religious/political sponsors, or be relegated to obscurity.

You betcha.

Update

A Nov. 21 Gallup Poll found that Republicans and Republican-leaning independents liked oogedy-boogedy Sarah best as their 2012 presidential nominee.

Mormon Mitt Romney was their next choice for 2012.

Third was evangelical Baptist Mike Huckabee.

Those results tend to affirm that the GOP is fundamentally an evangelical property, not an evangelical kidnap victim.

Do we agree?