It's a shame Cons don't know what

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their leaders say about them behind closed doors.

By Michael Scherer

Up-and-coming Republican hacks would do well to watch closely the ongoing Senate investigations of superstar lobbyist Jack Abramoff and his former business partner Michael Scanlon. The power duo stand accused of exploiting Native American tribes to the tune of roughly $66 million, laundering that money into bank accounts they controlled and then using it to buy favors for powerful members of Congress and the executive branch.

But they sure did know how to play the game.
Consider 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."

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/11/03/abramoff/index_np.html

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1. The base of the gop is extremely ignorant and malleable

that is the number one strength of the republican party. Just act folksy, pretend to "clear brush", tell folks you love God, that your a christian, and your money belongs to you and dumbass religiously insane morons and various and asundry racist groups will see to it that your are elected. Abramoff and his bunch are right, bush supporters are without a doubt, wackos!