A conservative commentator thinks House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s purported effort to work with evangelical activists on common goals of fighting global warming and helping the poor is politically savvy, yet unfortunately a sham.

Speaker Pelosi (D-California) recently told liberal bloggers at the Netroots Nation Conference that she "work[s] with Evangelicals to protect God's creation" and fight poverty. But Matt Lewis, a contributing writer for TownHall.com, believes that claim is deceptive. He believes liberal advisers and consultants have made a concerted effort to find a way to position liberal politicians like Pelosi as if they are "pro-family or pro-Christian."

"There are actually consultants [whose] full-time...job is to essentially go to liberals and tell them how to talk to an Evangelical...," he contends. "So some of the people that she’s dealing with I suspect are actually liberal sort of political hacks who have tapped into this emerging market."

Liberal outreach to Evangelicals has become a "cottage industry," adds Lewis, and Pelosi is tapping into it. "There are more and more sort of evangelical kids who have come of age in recent years who are susceptible to this message, and that’s the goal ultimately -- to reach those folks," states Lewis.

But he notes that they might persuade some of these "kids" to vote for the environment or for Obama. "And then they're going to go to the next convention in San Francisco and see people burning the flag and whatever," Lewis continues. "You simply cannot have a coalition that includes economic socialists and homosexual radicals, and big labor union bosses and evangelical Christians."

Lewis argues that liberals are not going to win the evangelical vote anytime soon, but if they can take 15 or 20 percent, that will be a significant victory for them.  Source