But perhaps the most wondrous revelation concerns a memo written by Delay aide Michael Scanlon. In one paragraph, Scanlon tosses aside the cloak of G.O.P. piety and reveals what the Republican leadership truly thinks of the religious right:
"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.The memo becomes even more delicious when we recall that, in 2002, Delay told a congregation at the First Baptist Church of Pearland, Texas that God was using him to promote a "Biblical Worldview" in America. Apparently, that "worldview" is broad enough to include Jack Abramoff, pay-offs, money laundering, casino ships used for drug-running, the murder of Gus Boulis...
How can we get the Scanlon quote before the eyes of millions of Jesus voters? Deep down, they've long suspected that BushCo was playing them for suckers. Many of them never accepted Poppy's dubious claim to have been "born again."
Moreover, many of them have a long-standing affection for wild conspiracy theories in which top-level Republicans play nefarious roles. Key words: "Bohemian Grove" "New World Order" and "Illuminati." The wackos (if I may borrow Scanlon's term) love that crap. Scanlon's memo will convince them that their worst fears were true.
Hear that sound? It's opportunity's knock.
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Alright all, call me naive, as I suppose, in the realm of conspiracy theory, I am, but...telephone trees? Is this a real means of communications between one Jesus Zombie and his/her hoard? What exactly are these trees? What do they do? They sound really strange.
Frankly, I not only never believed for a minute that Poppy Bush was born again...I don't believe his son is, either.
Doesn't it seem abundantly plain by this time that George W Bush, where religion is concerned, is faking it all along the line? Every word the man says in any religious connection just stinks to high heaven of hypocrisy. He's no more religious than the gatepost.
How has the Christian Right been fooled on this subject for so long? He has played them for idiots. I should think they'd start standing up on their hind legs and telling him to put his money where his mouth is.
Not only does God NOT talk to W, any self-respecting deity would have given him a withered cock by now, just to teach him an existential lesson. (Gee, maybe he even has. George is such a neuter.)
To me, the Number One priority in our fair land is to OUT the Fearful Leader as a Phony and an antiChristian who has taken real believers for a ride. Cut into his base? Out him as a fake, and he won't have any base left. Let's work on it. I think the evidence is there, just under the surface.
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