Republican memo: Christians are “wackos.”

DeLay aide and Abramoff business partner, Michael Scanlon, on how Republicans pass bills in D.C.:

“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 brilliance of this strategy was twofold: Not only would most voters not know about an initiative to protect Coushatta gambling revenues, but religious “wackos” could be tricked into supporting gambling at the Coushatta casino even as they thought they were opposing it.

That’s right, Christian Republicans — the national party thinks you’re a “wacko” who can be tricked into supporting even the most egregious laws. Worse still, they appear to be right, in the sense that that the tactic is working.