Ralph Reed loses his soul: The Nation’s Bob Moser follows the Reed-Abramoff money trail through Georgia, down to the Delta states, even to China and back, to draw the outline of a scandal that reaches Teapot Dome — or perhaps more appropriately, Jim and Tammy Bakker — proportions. And the fallout of the scandal that’s already rocked the remnants of the once-mighty Christian Coalition is also sending waves through Republican evangelicaldom. As Ralph Reed, the face and “the story of the movement,” becomes the story of what’s gone wrong in the partnership of business- and “family”-Republicans as well, Moser notes, a number of evangelicals are recalling sermons from pre-Falwell years: stay out of politics because it’s always dirty.