Where Will "Values Voters" Go?

Pat Robertson endorsed Rudy Giuliani and Sam Brownback endorsed John McCain.  What is a "Values Voter" to do? 
To be sure, Karl Rove's strategy of running a socially conservative candidate to galvanize the most consistently reliable Republican voters has been blown to shreds.   Now that we see this kind of independent thinking, one can only hope that religious conservatives will do likewise and break out of the two-dimensional box they have built for themselves. 

The real test will be after the Republican nomination is won.  Will conservatives throw up their hands and disengage after Thompson, Huckabee, and Paul fail?  What will Dobson's advice be? 

Let's say conservatives decide that they cannot in good conscience vote for Giuliani, McCain, or Romney.  Will religious conservatives accept the further derision of fellow Republicans after Clinton wins? 

Or, will "Values Voters" begin to realize that its not about them, but the good of the country and the Republican party?  Will they understand that our system is meant to be constructively involved?  Will they understand that the enemy of my enemy is my friend? 

It will be fascinating to see how the nomination process ends.  One thing, however is sure:  regardless of who wins the election, and how conservatives vote, the news media will continue to treat people of faith as the red-haired step-child of the democratic process.  My prediction is that about a week after the election, the mainstream media will ask all kinds of rhetorical questions about the participation of religious conservatives and how their involvement was either not enough, damaging, or some other disparaging angle.