Technique: Feign Piousness. Christian of course. No one holds religion against you and you can't hold the right-wing without it. Bush II was by his own account, transformed completely by his partnership with Jesus who entered his heart in 1985. It was a timely conversion. VP GHW Bush was gearing up his 88' bid for the presidency and he had an image problem with the Christian right who never considered him one of them and it was the unofficial duty of the eldest son to rectify the situation. Brother Jeb, a timely Catholic convert, did the same thing after he lost his first bid as governor of Florida.