The R's equal-opportunity exploitation: standing-room only
are you gay and feel like you're being used as a political campaign tool...? are you a deeply religious, conservative christian with hopes for restoring christianity in the united states...? do you belong to or identify with any group who has either been demonized or co-opted in order to gain votes for and insure the republican monopoly of the u.s. government...? i'd ask you to take a seat there on the right, but, unfortunately, it's sro...
and look who had this to say...
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“National Christian leaders received hugs and smiles in person and then were dismissed behind their backs and described as ‘ridiculous,’ ‘out of control,’ and just plain ‘goofy,’” Kuo writes. [David Kuo served as special assistant to the president from 2001 to 2003 and is the former second-in-command of the Office of Faith-Based Initiatives.]
More seriously, Kuo alleges that then-White House political affairs director Ken Mehlman knowingly participated in a scheme to use the office, and taxpayer funds, to mount ostensibly “nonpartisan” events that were, in reality, designed with the intent of mobilizing religious voters in 20 targeted races.
According to Kuo, “Ken loved the idea and gave us our marching orders.”
Among those marching orders, Kuo says, was Mehlman’s mandate to conceal the true nature of the events.
Kuo quotes Mehlman as saying, “… (I)t can’t come from the campaigns. That would make it look too political. It needs to come from the congressional offices. We’ll take care of that by having our guys call the office [of faith-based initiatives] to request the visit.”
Nineteen out of the 20 targeted races were won by Republicans, Kuo reports. The outreach was so extensive and so powerful in motivating not just conservative evangelicals, but also traditionally Democratic minorities, that Kuo attributes Bush’s 2004 Ohio victory “at least partially … to the conferences we had launched two years before.”
and look who had this to say...
[S]ome of the nation’s most prominent evangelical leaders were known in the office of presidential political strategist Karl Rove as “the nuts.”
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posted by profmarcus at
10/12/2006
