I don't think this is real. My BS detector went off at, "Look, we suckered all those nutjob Christian fundies out of their votes and their money." That just looks to me like a lamely obvious attempt at trying to drive a wedge.
It seems to me that Rove is absolutely willing to tell half truths to motivate agreeable voters and demotivate opposition supporters. The memo starts out as a believable astroturf voter supression campaign but Rove is way, way too savvy to put a line like that in writing. Much less an email apparently distributed this wide...
That said, the memo could actually have been written by a staffer on Rove's behalf. If some idiot within American Crossroads actually wrote this I predict that there will be a firing that only the "nutjob Christian fundies" will hear about.
On a more local front, we have a tit for tat between spinmeisters Media Trackers and One Wisconsin Now. Seriously, both of you are a part of the problem. When we only have two parties, each side will grow organs whose purpose is to attack the opposition and, while they do raise the profile of important facts from time to time, most of what they publish serves no good purpose.
It's like we went from, "If you don't have anything good to say, then don't say anything." to "...then make sure someone else tries to make em look bad publicly for you."
Politics should be about ideas and solutions. All energy wasted on offensive positioning and half truths on both sides make me sad. Party proportional democracy anyone? I say it's worth a try.
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