What Neocons think of their fundamentalist base: "Wackos"

[db]

In Wednesday's Senate hearings about how lobbyists Abramoff and Scanlon bilked American Indian tribes out of millions and used the money to win elections for their Republican clients they are

"...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... that Scanlon, a former aide to Rep. Tom DeLay, R-Tx., sent....
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.""

From a Salon article by Michael Scherer, 11/03/2005

 

[Steeplerot]

Yeah, I tend to think of the right's base as the easily manipulated whackos too of our society, but then I don't make hordes of cash pitting the more "excitable" against fellow americans.

What sleaze! Seriously, some people should not be poked and prodded as they already have a violent intolerant nature and if the neocons screw this up they will be consumed by the very ones they manipulated, and don't expect the more rational thinkers to have much pity...

 

[stateofbeasley]

So, this is what some Republicans think of their "base".

All this talk about "personal responsibility" and faith in people's ability to make their own rational decisions is just pretense for some, huh? Looks like Scanlon thinks that the relgious right is just as stupid and easily led as many liberals have claimed.

 

[Jhhnn]

The only thing that's surprising about it, at all, is that any of the current repub strategists and influence peddlers would actually put it in writing. They saw suckers and chumps begging for exploitation, and they've obliged, redefining the whole sheperd and flock scenario. I'm sure it's almost painfully easy, learning the lingo, telling them what they want to hear, exploiting their fears and fervor for one's own purposes...

It'll end up as a bitter lesson for people who traditionally shunned politics, who focused their energies on their families and gaining everlasting rewards through clean living and good deeds. With any luck at all, they'll figure out that the Falwells, Reeds, Robertsons, Bushes and DeLays of this world have been using them all along... and have never believed a single word of what they've been professing.

 

[Steeplerot]

Personally I think the neocon manipulators should be imprisioned and the organized religion aspect that has subverted democracy riding their coatails so much owes us all back taxes for being a political entity since say...reagans first inauguration

 

[shrumpage]

Originally posted by: Steeplerot
Yeah, I tend to think of the right's base as the easily manipulated whackos too of our society, but then I don't make hordes of cash pitting the more "excitable" against fellow americans.

What sleaze! Seriously, some people should not be poked and prodded as they already have a violent intolerant nature and if the neocons screw this up they will be consumed by the very ones they manipulated, and don't expect the more rational thinkers to have much pity...

Violent? as i recall in the last election, it was the republican headquaters were being shot at.

 

[Kibbo86]

It's abortion doctors and homosexuals who actually end up murdered.

 

[dmcowen674]

Originally posted by: db
In Wednesday's Senate hearings about how lobbyists Abramoff and Scanlon bilked American Indian tribes out of millions and used the money to win elections for their Republican clients they are

"...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... that Scanlon, a former aide to Rep. Tom DeLay, R-Tx., sent....
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.""

From a Salon article by Michael Scherer, 11/03/2005

Well somehow the Republicans managed to get Baptists and Catholics in the south to vote as a block.

That was no small feat as they hate each other down here.

Now there is signs that Republicans are no longer able to overcome this ingrained hatred so maybe next year's election will be more "normal".

Only time will tell, the Repuiblicans have enough time to fix their brainwashing machine.