POLITICO's Juana Summers reports from Colorado:

Paul Ryan told a group of evangelicals during a Sunday night tele-town hall that the path President Barack Obama's set the country on compromises the "Judeo Christian, western civilization values" that made America great.

"As Ralph [Reed] mentioned, this is whether or not people turn out and take their country back, and get us on the right track or not," Ryan said at the start of the call. "And in these critical battleground states, it's going to make the difference as to..whether or not we're going to go down the path the President has put us on."

"It's a dangerous path. It's a path that grows government, restricts freedom and liberty and compromises those values, those Judeo-Christian values that made us such a great and exceptional nation in the first place."

Ryan's remarks on the tele-town hall that organizers said drew thousands of callers, veer sharply from the tone he's taken on the trail during the campaign's closing days.

In rallies today in Mansfield, Ohio and Minneapolis, Minn., Ryan largely avoided sharp attacks on the president and emphasized bipartisanship and the need to offer real change as opposed to the "vague platitudes" of hope and change Obama campaigned on in 2008.

Asked for comment on Ryan's remarks, a Ryan spokesman said he was "talking about issues like religious liberty and Obamacare, topics he has mentioned frequently during the campaign."

The spokesman said Ryan's remarks are consistent with running mate Mitt Romney's comments in the past, citing his commencement address at Liberty University.