I caught this short little headline at The Conservative Voice:
'By Sher Zieve - Democrat groups are reported to be compiling a list of gay Congressional staffers and elected officials. The list is said to predominantly be comprised of Republican gays.
Rush Limbaugh advised Friday that this list may be released and published on the Internet, sometime next week. The move is said to be an attempt to suppress the Republican Christian vote in the upcoming 2006 November elections'
Here's what I think this really means.
Obviously, the democrats are not compiling any such list. The republicans are. They think this is a foolproof plan to assuage the christian right and blame dems all in one fell swoop.
First they compile the list, and then find a "democrat" to leak it to the press. Obviously it doesn't have to be a real democrat, the truth has no relevance here.
So then, they get to purge the party of gays, blame the dems, and mollify the christian right all in one fell swoop. If the plan worked, they could have gays staying home in droves instead of voting, and have the christian right coming out to vote in droves.
Very Rovian, no?