Late last year we wrote about the email exchanges between GOP uber-lobbyist Jack Abramoff and associates describing their strategies for using Christian “wackos” at the polls. They were playing them for chumps.
Now, a former Bush Administration official from the White House’s “Faith-Based Initiatives” office reveals further how Bush and the Republicans in power did little more than play their Christian Evangelical supporters as suckers who they could trick into turning out to the polls.
In the book, Tempting Faith: An Inside Story of Political Seduction, author and former Bush official David Kuo, a real Christian and conservative, explains how Karl Rove referred to their so-called Christian “Values Voters” as “the nuts,” “out of control,” and “just plain goofy.”
Tucker Carlson spoke about the “pure contempt” that the Republicans actually have for the Christian base recently on The Chris Matthews Show (short video here). MSNBC ran a longer segment detailing the explosive revelations found during their exclusive look at the new book (video at RAW STORY).
We realize this item came out a day or two ago, but we think it’s worth pointing more attention towards.
So will you dyed-in-the-wool far right Christian voters fall for the same trick again this November by supporting candidates who loathe you and are using you for everything you’re worth (money and a vote)? We’ll see…
UPDATE 6:08pm PT: The video from Part II of MSNBC’s report is now here, courtesy of Crooks & Liars…
This should be the #1 story on ABC/NBC/CBS/CNN…but it won’t be…
It should be…but, I agree #1, it won’t be.
And the thing is I don’t think that the religious right is going to be voting Democratic!!
I can’t believe I’m saying this but I basically agree with Rove et. al., that a lot of conservative “Christians” are loony.
Keith Olberman had outSTANDing coverage of this yesterday and is planning to cover it for a week! Check it out Brad and see what you think. He has asked the author to come on and will be having guests related to this issue for a week I think he said. Yay Keith! He provides MSM’s closest version of Brad journalism. That is to say, it is real.
Hopefully this Rove/bu$$hco kick in the teeth to the Christo-Fascists and Dominionists will cause a large portion to be offended and sit the next few elections out. But you can be sure the Jesus Freaks will intensify their goal towards their utopic theocracy by indoctrinating the young ones at “Jesus Camp” to bring their own brainwashed candidates to a presidential contest down the road. And rather than hitching on to a slimeball group like rove/bu$$hco,.. they will not reiterate that same mistake again. They will latch on to a bible thumper type as Bill Frist,.. Thom Delay,..or John Ashcroft. The attempted Christian Taliban Nazi take over of our government,.. White House,.. Democracy is not over by a long shot. When least expected this stealth group will rear it’s ugly head. It is going to take on going vigilance to keep this group at bay. The goal of these conservative religious fundamentalists is to commandeer this government,.. dismantle our democracy,.. and install there brand of theocracy. Trash the Constitution,.. Bill of Rights,.. and civil/crimminal laws and impose their strict interpretation of the Ten Commandments and the Old Testament. Public stonings to the death will become common place,.. it will make the Salem Witch Trials look like a lawn party jamboree.
I tend to agree, Old Turk, at least for the more extremist right wing “Christians”
less than a month to go before the republicans keep both houses and this blog and all who dwell here get flushed…
I hope you all enjoyed yourselves, you have 2 more years to rest up for the next meltdown.
-Air America
-Nutjob blogs
-scandal journalism
what do these three things have in common?
The christofacists don’t even get their own Guru Jesus. He tells them he speaks in parables so they try taking the 2000 yr old book word for word. They are absolutely sure that these words mean what it suits them to mean.
Personally I have faith but I do not have the gaul to claim I know what God (or whoever) thinks other people should do. That makes you either an extreme egotist a contol freak or very very simple and I am simple enough but these people surpass me.
It could of course be an extreme example of pack mentallity. They’ve retired from their own God Given (Cant even be sure of that) minds. A new sin perhaps? Really deliberate self delusion is just a branch the old sin, “lying”. Only its to yourself.
#3 Ginny
Im really impressed with Keith Olberman. Good to see someone with real guts on U-tube. Can’t get him on TV here unless of course he was on Fox which we do get :). Wish we had someone like him over here. Ill be looking on YouTube and here for links.
OT, but same “playing the fools” subject. Let’s look at ourselves (or at least some of us), too. Schwarzenegger is leading Angelides by at least 10% in the polls. Why, in a blue state? Because Schwarzenegger has played on our ideals and wishful thinking. Meets with the Dalai Lama. He sells his Humvees. Compromises on some environmental legislation. Lots of articles coming out – “Hey, he’s not such a bad guy after all. Maybe a progressive kind of Republican.” But this is all during an election campaign in a blue state. What about his very low poll rates just a few months ago? What about his unconscionable raking in the bucks from big business? His ineptness in working with the legislature? All forgotten because we so want someone reasonable, someone just a bit “green”.
I’m not entirely comfortable with Angelides (but will vote for him), but Schwarzenegger is playing his constituents like a violin. It’s so easy.
Arry, not to mention the 9 billion that Davis & ?(forgot who) were suing the energy companies for on behalf of the citizens of Ca.
What did Cheney have Ahnold settle for after the secret energy meeting and the recall election that followed, a couple hundred million ?
Repubs, big crooks, the lot of them
BTW, Crooks and Liars has all the Olberman on this Tempting Faith jazz
Free Speech TV’s INN Report, Lenny Charles interviewing president of the lawyers guild Marjorie Cohn, and she said the Democrats’ leads don’t mean they’ll win because of electronic voting machines. Well, how ’bout that??? It’s out in the open, everywhere but ABC/NBC/CBS!!!
Floridiot — OT — Yeah, could have done a lot with 9 billion (and they should have been recovered more).
Enron, Cheney, Schwarzenegger — Bulldog journalists sure jumped on that one, didn’t they? (kidding)
On subject…anyone with half a brain knows that the Cheney/Bush cabal is anti-Christian, the polar opposite of Christ’s teachings. But, if you’re looking for the rapture and the destruction of earth – well, they are your guys.
My # 11 — That should be “they should have recovered more”
Arry,
Angelides is qualified to be governor. Arnold is a shameless opportunist and a chauvinist.
Actually this is the ONLY thing the Neofascist are correct on, the Christofascist indeed are stark raving mad lunatics.
None the less shame they are so ignorant that they will vote rethuglican regardless what is said or how they are used.
part of being a delusional psychotic I guess.
Everybody knows how pessimistic I am, but I’ve always thought the faith-based-initiatives were a plan to build giant warehouses to put religious homeless people in. Non-religious homeless people will no longer exist inside society. There won’t be anybody living in the streets or in shabby apartments anymore. They make the 10% uncomfortable.
SOLVE 85% OF THE PROBLEMS INSTANTLY, VOTE ALL INCUMBANTS OUT…JIM
As crazy as the Bush people are and even they think someone else is Crazier than them? Wow!
Some of these responces scare me as much as the Christian righters do. Talk about a bunch of died in the wool 60’s baby-boomer types. Kids, get over the naievety. Secularism is just as morally absolutist as the Falwell agenda, and what we are seeing with this Eveie thing is a backlash. While the infrastructure crmubles, we all sit and fight over inane topics like gay marriage and abortion with a sickening amount of sanctimoniousness from both sides.