The unfolding story surrounding U.S. Sen. Larry Craig has reinforced former Iowa Lt. Gov. Art Neu's view that the Republican Party should focus on economic and foreign policy issues, public-sphere matters of grave seriousness, rather than banking on values-posturing that so often exposes human frailty and outright hypocrisy.
What's more, Neu, a Carroll attorney and something of an ambassador from an era of more civil politics -- the days of Robert Ray's governorship -- said he thinks President Bush's unpopularity and a cascade of scandals involving the "terrible" hypocrisy of social conservatives could crack open the door to an older-school Republican approach he and Ray represented in Iowa.
"I don't think it's necessary that candidates keep telling us what good Christians they are," Neu said. "The people I knew in politics who were good Christians didn't have to announce it."
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