Actually, the state is happy to use him. After the flag issue, it will continue its war against Bob Jones University. But, for the moment, Bob Jones thinks he is being smart. After all, he can count on blind conservative support, no matter what he does. So he is using this cheap trick to get liberal approval.
Conservatives invest everything in institutions they trust.
In the meantime, leftists work at taking over or subverting those institutions. Somewhere in his public statement, every conservative spokesman always includes a knee-jerk demand for more uniforms, more soldiers, more sailors. If a bunch of men start making loud comments about how they love a guy in uniform, you have to look carefully to see whether they are on a San Francisco street corner or at a conservative convention. Conservatives fell in love with uniforms during World War II and the Cold War. Leftists were all for World War II, and they loved the military then.