When my good friend, Gene Hoyas, the Bulldog Pundit, introduced me yesterday, he described me, and rightfully so, not only as Christian Conservative, but, also a Reagan Conservative.

As President Ronald Reagan so eloquently said in Proclamation 4826, on the National Day of Prayer, March 19, 1981:

Throughout our history Americans have put their faith in God and no one can doubt that we have been blessed for it.

It is quite telling, that as we enter into the 2012 Presidential Campaign, a beleaguered Democratic Party is desperately attempting to camouflage the ineptness of their president by attacking the faith of the opposition candidates.

Per Byron York of  washingtonexaminer.com:

…Now some of Obama’s activist allies and supporters in the press are engaged in a sharply focused effort to change the subject. Even as economic anxieties continue to rise, some of the nation’s premier political journalists are consumed with the alleged influences of obscure religious philosophers on Republican candidates; on questions of creationism, evolution, and the age of the Earth; and on the fantasy that a Republican president might transform the United States into an Iranian-style theocracy.

For example, the Daily Beast/Newsweek recently published an article titled “A Christian Plot for Domination?” claiming that Perry and Bachmann are “deeply associated with a theocratic strain of Christian fundamentalism” known as Dominionism. A widely discussed article in the Texas Observer claimed that Dominionists — a “little-known movement of radical Christians” — are readying an “army of God” to “commandeer civilian government,” with Perry the “vessel” for their ambitions. Finally, the New Yorker published a long article claiming that Bachmann believes “Christians, and Christians alone, are Biblically mandated to occupy all secular institutions until Christ returns.”

Surveying those articles, the executive editor of the New York Times, Bill Keller, concludes that “an unusually large number” of Republican candidates “belong to churches that are mysterious or suspect to many Americans.” Perry and Bachmann, in particular, are connected to “fervid subsets of evangelical Christianity,” which Keller says “has raised concerns about their respect for the separation of church and state, not to mention the separation of fact and fiction.” Fearing that Perry or Bachmann could be a “Trojan horse” for a religious takeover of the government, Keller advocates strict questioning of candidates on doctrinal issues.

You know, I’ve sung in churches and led services for over 30 years, and I’ve never heard of a “Dominionist”. Have you?

The Left’s strategy is painfully obvious.  Instead of attacking the true issues going into the 2012 Campaign Season, they have decided instead to lash out, attacking the majority of Americans’ belief systems, hoping that they can provide cover for their petulant man-child of a president.

Lately, they’ve doubled-down in their efforts to identify any American that questions the competency of Barack Hussein Obama (mm mmm mmmm) as being a RAAACIIIST.

For example, this little sterling bit of oratory, as reported this past Tuesday by foxnews.com:

Democratic Rep. Andre Carson told a Miami crowd last week that the Tea Party movement would “love” to see black Americans “hanging on a tree.”

The comment is the latest charged remark made by a member of the Congressional Black Caucus as lawmakers tour the country talking about jobs. Carson, D-Ind., lamented at the event that the Tea Party was stopping “change,” in an effort he said was reminiscent of the “Jim Crow” era.

“Some of these folks in Congress right now would love to see us as second-class citizens,” he said. “Some of them in Congress right now with this Tea Party movement would love to see you and me … hanging on a tree.”

Of course, now that he’s been called on his stupid statement, Carson is backtracking…sort of:

I said there are some who have espoused a certain philosophy that takes us back 50 or 60 years. But the Tea Party as an organizational body has made some excellent points in terms of cutting back on excessive government spending, increasing transparency in government – I actually stand in solidarity with them. But I’m concerned about some of the extremist elements who tend to be remnants or leftovers from the John Birch Society or George Wallace’s Dixiecrats. They’re a small group of people. I think most Tea Partiers are well intentioned and want to see our country in a better place. I just don’t want to see the rhetoric increase where we’re cutting entitlement programs, we’re hurting working class Americans, we’re hurting poor people. It’s the wrong way to go.

…What I’m deeply concerned about is the rhetoric involved – the divisive rhetoric that has separated the races. The divisive rhetoric that separates Americans, that has diverted us from getting back on track, investing in infrastructure, investing in our schools and making sure we reclaim the crown of being the greatest nation on planet earth.

Rep. Carson, it’s not about the color of Obama’s skin.  It’s about the content of his character.

Thankfully, Liberals are failing miserably in their attempts to distract Americans from the real issue of the 2012 Presidential Campaign.  The clarifying issue of this election is not the make-believe intolerance of “Christianists”, as the Left has labelled us.  Nor, is the backlash against the Obama presidency based on the color of his skin.

Instead, the whole crux of the 2012 President Election can be summed up in a rather eloquent statement by James Carville, a raving Liberal himself, who quipped:

IT’S THE ECONOMY, STUPID!

Today’s article will be cross-posted at 2:00 p.m. Eastern on genehoyas.com (Bulldog Pundit), a great Conservative website.