Bill Frist has been seeking a presidential nomination for 2008 by gathering support from the right side of his party. His efforts seem to be working to the effect that there is a growing Christian Right base that is listening closely to his campaigning.

Frist is in no small way indicative of an early Howard Dean primary run. I remember the first time I heard Dean speak was well, well before the 2004 election and even quite before the primary. I immediately liked him because he reflected my far-left leanings and he did it with diction and poise (yes, poise) that most folks at either edge of the political spectrum lack.

There are two articles written about how Frist is beginning to alienate his party by going for the cheap, the easy, and the extreme right. He’s been siding with those who would claim that the U.S. Supreme Court is ‘out to get’ Christian heritage and values. He’s also (sickeningly) spoke up during the Terri Schaivo matter.

Tom Perkins, president of the Family Research Counsil, has spoken at length about the ‘agenda’ of the judicial branch. From a page on the Counsil’s website:

“For years activist courts, aided by liberal interest groups like the A.C.L.U., have been quietly working under the veil of the judiciary, like thieves in the night, to rob us of our Christian heritage and our religious freedoms.”

This is the Republican equivalent to the Democratic college revolutionary. Frist is marketing himself to the edge of his party’s constituency and it’ll take nothing more than a screen for his fellow republicans to remove him from the picture as an embarrassment to the party.