Daily Kos: DeLay Aide's Memo Betrays The Playbook

[Mark E. Smith]

by Virginia Dem

How anybody could vote Republican until they do a full fumigation to get rid of DeLay and Co. is beyond me. Check out what (indicted) DeLay aide Mike Scanlon says here:

"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 article explains the strategy we've come to know all too well:

Scanlon confessed the source code of recent Republican electoral victories: target religious conservatives, distract everyone else, and then railroad through complex initiatives.

Well, here's their plan finally in black and white. This should piss off the wackos. It should anger the public. We're already fuming. If this quote is run as a DNC ad in every district in the country, we win both chambers in a landslide.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/11/3/224529/687

[ewagner]

1. This is devastating

It exposes Delay for the hypocrit he really is...

I'm going to post this link far and wide.

[goforit]

2. Thank you Mike Scanlon!!!

Your ass is really cooked.

[wishlist]

3. Christian politico Ralph Reed is entangled in the Delay/Abramoff web

I have made sure to bring up with my Repub relatives from Georgia the way Christian groups are being manipulated and Ralph Reed's involvement in the corrupt casino money laundering efforts.

I don't have much hope though since these relatives are not only brainwashed and oblivious to news unless it comes from their church or Christian radio station, but they also have that unfortunate and very un-Christian attitude of many wealthy privileged people who don't believe in paying taxes or government efforts to help and ensure rights and privileges to others who are less fortunate.

[centristo]

10. well was ralph reed complicit

or was he being used? I don't know all the facts but it could easily be either or both...

[acmavm]

11. Seriously, was he being used? Yeah, you bet. And you know how you

can tell? From all the lying and covering up he's been doing.

Being used. That was cute.

[centristo]

16. Abramoff was playing multiple sides against each other

and part of that was using conservative Christians to ban gambling for the benefit of the tribe Abramoff was representing. It wasn't immediately clear who he was playing for suckers and who was "in" on it.

But then I read this:

"Reed has acknowledged receiving $4 million from Abramoff and Scanlon to run anti-gambling campaigns in the South. Reed has said he did not know where the funds were coming from, but e-mails suggest that he was aware that some of the money he was getting came from the casino-rich Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/22/AR2005062200921_pf.html

Yeah, he wasn't being used, he was doing the using. Selling out his own support group for political and monetary gain. What a piece of ass garbage.

edited for grammr

[ninkasi]

20. Really...

Poor Ralph...another misled soul. Yeah. Can you believe these people?

[Fuzz]

4. Wonder how the freeps will explain away this one

I know, it was just a lowly aide whose opinions don't reflect those of Delay or the Republican leadership. etc etc etc

[Search Party]

12. and then the MSM will chime in with,

"yeah, what he said."

[Stephanie]

5. K&R

Can we get this on the home page? Can we get this to Dean?

[AnnInLa]

6. This should be front and center

of any political argument we Dems use....it should be kicked and nominated here on DU....it should be emailed to everyone you know, including Olbermann, AAR, TDS..just anyone.

[dutchdemocrat]

7. See documents here:

All emails are up in HTML format here:

http://www.chris-floyd.com/jack/

Easy to peruse - there's lot's of jewels in there...

[donkeyotay]

14. Everyone should take time out from putting food on their family

To get an inside look at the Real Right. Here's an arbitrary snippet from page 7 of the emails regarding getting some casino bidness done:

So far, only liberal Dem (name blanked) say's he's voting, "yes." We'll send him 100 "patch-throughs" from his North LA Baptist (word illegible) and see what he says tomorrow. ... The phone banks filled up every voice mail we could find over the weekend and they're back on the job today. Phone bank workers report people saying, "Oh yes, I got the post card on that today." Senator Max Malone, a Harrah's opponent and probable dockside opponent told me "I received my call from Jerry Falwell."

http://www.chris-floyd.com/jack/

Using churches for bidness. Faking a popular movement. Hell, I wouldn't be surprised if the phone banks aren't in India. The Real Right.

[Mark E. Smith]

19. Hallelujah

Casinos for the Lord.

[Gregorian]

8. Finally, they got it in writing.

I am completely unshocked.

However, I'm surprised they haven't already replaced the Federal Reserve Chairman with a Ouija board.


edit- Oh man, the comments on Kos are amazing today. We're on scandal overload; The Dems will walk away from this, and repubs will be struggling for years to come;

We've only just begun to fight. These evil republican beings should be punished all the way to Hades.

[Mark E. Smith]

9. The cynicism of these people defies description

I wonder how all the fundie church-going types would react of they knew the contempt they were held in by their political heroes..

[lonestarnot]

13. That's some play book to put into written form! Thanks Scanlon!

[underpants]

15. Will the wackos ever see it? If they do I doubt they will go anywhere

I hope I don't piss of any of our religous friends here but if they bought into something like THAT so wholeheartedly they will buy into anything.

[pacalo]

17. And the wackos came out in droves to deliver...

And what about all those *-bathed-in-heavenly-light photos -- who came up with that strategy?

[gardenista]

18. Thing is, they know they're wackos, and they're proud of it.

And the clueless people know they're clueless, and they're too apathetic to pay attention.

However, it's good to know the depth of the festering well of cynicism.