Plead the First

In case there was any doubt that some in the Republican leadership are concerned about Christians primarily as a means to an end, a Salon article points out that former DeLay aide Mike Scanlon referred to Christian conservatives as “wackos” in a memo, and essentially advocated using their concerns to trick them into voting a certain way:

“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.” The brilliance of this strategy was twofold: Not only would most voters not know about an initiative to protect Coushatta gambling revenues, but religious “wackos” could be tricked into supporting gambling at the Coushatta casino even as they thought they were opposing it.

How the Republicans can be considered by anybody to be “God’s Own Party” is beyond me.

Via DailyKos.

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