Are Fundamentalist Christian McCain supporters flip-flopping?

Question

So I just heard about the McCain-Palin thing a little while back, and decided to go over to our old friends at Rapture Ready, a popular extreme fundamentalist Christian site to get their forum members take on the whole thing. I expected them to be disapproving of Palin, since they're always against women in the workplace and pregnant teens, and to be criticizing McCain for the choice.

Shock upon shock, they were ecstatic. They were throwing their hands up in the air and celebrating (if you can do that in text over the internet) about Palin being selected. This brings a question to my mind: Are these fundie supporters total flip-floppers? In every other case, they frown upon any women not staying at home to raise children and take care of her family, and at any teen being pregnant, saying that the teen will be smote if she doesn't marry the father, or that she already is. As soon as Jesus McCain, who they would support even if he demanded their first born childs blood, selects the woman, they're totally for her. It goes against everything they've believed in previously, yet they make a total U-turn in beliefs without the slightest hint that something might be wrong there.

Either explain this logic to me, or if you're a fundie, support yourself and justify why you can do this.

Answer 1

what?

Answer 2

Some people who claim to be Christian are more political than spiritual.  And they don't recognize that they are that way.  Jesus never belonged to a political party and was in direct opposition to the political powers of the day.  

Answer 3

try not to mistake religion with conservitism

Answer 4

They believe that what they call evil when others do it, is good when they do it.

Answer 5

Hard-core religious voters will tend to ignore what they don't like about a candidate as long as that candidate agrees with them on their core issues. Palin is staunchly anti-choice, which is their primary issue. She is also against, apparently, any g*y rights, as she has supported ballot measures that would deny g*y partners benefits. This isn't even about marriage, it is just about benefits for the life partner who the employee is prevented from marrying. Outside of issues, this is a woman who, as governor, exhorted people to pray for the passage of a pipeline measure and said the Iraq war was God's work.

As long as she is against what they're against when they go into the voting booth, they'll overlook a few broken commandments.