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David Kuo, the man who once was the #2 official in President Bush’s Office of Faith-Based Initiatives has a new book about to hit the shelves. Once again, we've got a disgruntled former staffer writing a tell-all about the inner workings of the White House. But this time around, its a Christian conservative doing the talking. And wow, is he talking...

Here's an excerpt from ThinkProgress:

Every other White House office was up and running. The faith-based initiative still operated out of the nearly vacant transition offices.

Three days later, a Tuesday, Karl Rove summoned [Don] Willett [a former Bush aide from Texas who initially shepharded the program] to his office to announce that the entire faith-based initiative would be rolled out the following Monday. Willett asked just how — without a director, staff, office, or plan — the president could do that. Rove looked at him, took a deep breath, and said, “I don’t know. Just get me a f—ing faith-based thing. Got it?” Willett was shown the door.

Karl Rove apparently refers to evangelical leaders as "the nuts" on a very regular basis. More from Keith Olberman:

Here's the thing that baffles me about all of these tell-all Bush books. Why is it that they surprise anyone? Of course these people think the religious right are led by nuts. Of course they are using them to gain and hold political power. Of course the endless rhetoric about moral and family values is nothing more than rhetoric.

Karl Rove is a direct marketing genius, not a principled religious leader. As are most of the leaders of the religious right. The Pat Robertsons and James Dobsons of the world are PT Barnum than Martin Luther King. In fact, the only difference between Rove and Dobson is that Rove doesn't actually believe the things he says. But for both of them, marketing is everything.

Why this surprises anyone is beyond me.

UPDATE: CarpetBagger has the reaction from James Dobson. Of course he has dismissed the book without even reading, as all good conservatives are wont to do. But I have to say, his dismissal isn't nearly as vehement as I would have expected. I have no idea what to make of that, of course, but I did think it worth mentioning.