‘McBrilliant!’ Where ‘values’ voters meet, controversy follows

Every year hundreds of religious right leaders gather in Washington, D.C., to talk values and voting. At this year’s Values Voter Summit those values included some whoppers: a racist caricature of Sen. Barack Obama, fear-mongering by Gary Bauer, a campaign to save California from evil “homosexuals,” and the constant hyperbole of U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann.

The Values Voters Summit features a “who’s who” of the religious right, but who wasn’t there? Republican presidential nominee John McCain and his running mate, Sarah Palin, an absence that organizers weren’t very happy about.