Why won't Ralph Reed [3] talk to reporters, even though he's running for public office? "He can’t afford to," writes Sean Flynn in a lengthy profile of the scandal-dogged former Christian Coalition [4] organizer. "If he does, they’ll just start asking him all those uncomfortable questions that have nothing to do with being lieutenant governor. Mostly, they’ll ask about his relationship—his multimillion-dollar relationship—with convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff [5]. And that’s if they’re only skimming the surface. Give them some time and they’ll ask about his work for eLottery or Enron [6] or Microsoft [7]; or his shilling for China; or his close call with the statute of limitations in Texas; or the way John McCain [8] got slimed in the 2000 South Carolina primary; or something called the Black Churches Insurance Program. Maybe they’d even ask how he squares up his professed salvation through his Lord and Savior Jesus Christ with…well, with everything else."