Kathryn, you cannot quibble factually with a reporter who states that the President hasn’t paid much lip service or used much bully-pulpit time on social-conservative issues. “Intensity” on the social-conservative agenda is not a quality he has demonstrated. Consistency, perhaps, but not intensity. Bush talks about abortion in public about twice a year. His equally rare talk on gay issues skips quickly to citing Scripture and seeing the log in his own eye. He may come through for social conservatives on the Supreme Court pick. He has simply been largely absent rhetorically. You can argue that’s smart politics with a liberal media who even liberals will acknowledge feels hotly about the “sex” issues (abortion and gays), but he’s largely absent nonetheless.