The Used & The Users

File Under: the 'religious' Right

Ha Ha Hilarious: we now have the emails where Jack Abramoff's business partner and former aide to Tom Delay, details how the Republicans use the 'religious' right. Ha ha ha ha:

one memo highlighted in a Capitol Hill hearing Wednesday that Scanlon, a former aide to Rep. Tom DeLay, R-Tx., sent the Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana to describe his strategy for protecting the tribe's gambling business. In plain terms, Scanlon confessed the source code of recent Republican electoral victories: target religious conservatives, distract everyone else, and then railroad through complex initiatives.

"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."

This is just too good to be true. I have been saying this for years: the establishment Republicans know that they can use the religious folk as their shock troops... and now it is coming back to haunt them becuase they want things the establishment doesn't.