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The cat is out of the bag. The GOP have been using the religious right to win elections and have only repaid them with lip service, and privately ridicule the very people they are using. There's no surprise here. The core group of neocon fascists have been "using" individuals and groups for decades in their pursuit of the quasi-total power that they now possess. Reagan was used. Newt Gingrich was used. It is no wonder that the neocon base was so rabidly anti-Clinton. His two term presidency put the master plan of the power mongers on hold for eight years. Centrist Republicans have been used. Dick Cheney, Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, David Addington, and Donald Rumsfeld have demonstrated no reluctance to seduce groups into thinking that the power grabbers will help them after elections are over. I believe that even Karl Rove has been used, though he has reaped his own personal benefits. I don't perceive Rove as being driven by the quest for a supreme executive branch-the Constitution be damned. I think that politics to Karl Rove is a personal challenge. Unfortunately he has no scruples as to how to achieve his goals. The elections in 2000, 2002, and 2004 were rigged. It might be more accurate to describe 2000 as being hijacked. It was apparent that the efforts to fix that election failed. The mistakes of 2000 were not to be repeated in 2002 or 2004.

Consider the election of 2004. The president's approval ratings were dismal. The popular take on the economy was dismal. Bush was whacked in the series of presidential debates. Conservative pundits predicted a Bush loss. And yet the neocon core never spoke of or demonstrated any hint of apprehension as to the outcome of the election. The elections this November will be fixed also. I am curious as to what excuse will be proffered when the GOP maintain control of both the House and the Senate. After the Foley debacle it can't be moral values. Even Billy-Bob Republicans are figuring out that the war in Iraq is not the same as the global war on terrorism. WWII veterans are seething at the ridiculous comparisons of the current situation to the pre-WWII scenario. Perhaps the promised "October surprise" will shed some light onto the planning for the post-election explaining.