Daddy Dobson is herding his sheeple to vote

Shakes Sis is blogging about Daddy Dobson's Focus on the Anus registration drive to get The Base registered, hypnotized and ready to vote for the wingnuts.

FoF, in an LA Times piece says the organization will use "a variety of methods -- including information inserted in church publications and booths placed outside worship services" in order to mobilize voters for the mid-term elections.

That's all well and good -- and legal to a point, but the issue for Dems is that the Right is much more effective at using the church in recent times, in getting out the religious vote.

"Any time you go from a big presidential year like 2004 to an off-year like this, there's going to be a drop-off" in voter interest, said John Paulton of Focus on the Family Action, the political arm of Focus on the Family. "It's a question of how much. You could argue that the fear of what could happen if many more liberal politicians take over could be very motivating to get out and vote as strongly."

The program, announced in an e-mail to activists last week, is seeking county and church coordinators in the targeted states of Maryland, Montana, Tennessee, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Minnesota.

"In 2004, about 25 million evangelicals failed to vote. Now is the time to reverse the trend," the e-mail said.

According to the e-mail, county coordinators are being asked to work about five hours a week and would be responsible for "recruiting key evangelical churches."

The GOP is also, according to the article, courting the fundies by setting up registration boots at Christian rock concerts, state fairs and other events where The Base hangs out.

People are going to be peppered with voter guides with the candidates' views on the usual topics for these fools -- same-sex marriage, abortion, and stem cell research. While they cannot endorse candidates, they can hand out misleading materials in those voter guides. Shakes:

And, of course, paying attention to the law doesn't stop them from being mendacious pricks and doing fun things like misrepresenting the positions of women's organizations in a brochure subtitled "Exploiting women in the name of science."

The only way to stop these people is to throw out of the office the cynical base-pandering miscreants who are held in their thrall.