Looks like we now can see the GOP playbook that many of us suspected all along -- privately scorn Christians as "wackos" while cynically and cold-bloodedly using them to push their anti-tax, pro-corporate, and pro-war policies. Don't believe me? Here it is in black and white, courtesy of Salon magazine:
"The wackos get their information through the Christian right, Christian radio, mail, the internet and telephone trees," Scanlon wrote in the memo, which was read into the public record at a hearing of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee. "Simply put, we want to bring out the wackos to vote against something and make sure the rest of the public lets the whole thing slip past them."
That's from Michael Scanlon, a former aide to Tom DeLay (until his recent indictment, House Majority Leader and the nation's top Republican elected official behind George W. Bush and Dick Cheney) and now an indicted lobbyist caught up in the Abramoff scandals.
In other words, the GOP playbook is to get out the "wacko" Christian vote (Scanlon's words, not mine!) while keeping the rest of the public (the "non-wackos?") at home. Think Kilgore might be calling the same plays? I wonder what Kilgore's friend Pat Robertson thinks of this.
[For the original, go to page 119 of this online .pdf document.]