Ed Kilgore, whose main gig is at the Washington Monthly, had some good news and some bad news on Wednesday for lefty readers at his home away from home, Talking Points Memo. Kilgore noted “promising signs in 2014” that “conservative Christian paranoia” was diminishing, but warned that it won’t be long before religious-right bigwigs start “lashing their troops into a frenzy of fear at the prospect of another liberal president.”

The middle of Kilgore’s piece assessed the appeal that the 2016 Republican presidential aspirants might have for Christian conservatives. He touched on pretty much every rumored candidate, from Ted Cruz (“frequently deploys as his warm-up act his father Rafael Cruz, a fiery conservative evangelical minister who believes Christians must ‘take back society’ from ‘the progressives’”) to Scott Walker (“a conservative evangelical who often speaks of carrying out his anti-union, pro-corporate agenda on instructions from the Almighty”) to Rick Perry (“has long enjoyed close relationships with crypto-dominionists and radical self-styled Christian Zionists”) to Rick Santorum (“on occasion [has] hinted that mainline Protestantism had been captured by Satan”).

That left the first and last sections of the article for Kilgore’s blasts at the religious right (emphasis added):