What's significant about this is not that is once again demonstrates the robotic, shark-like will to power of the modern Republican party -- a religious cult crossed with an organized crime family. We already knew that. It's just the standard Rovian tactic of attacking your enemy for your very own sins, and then persuading various corporate media suck asses (the Mark Halperins of this world) to write that you've miraculously managed to turn a weakness into a strength.