The NRCC is eager to use Rube-gate as an opening to prove Erick's point by hammering vulnerable House Dems who may not be thrilled to align themselves with Obama:
It helps in dispelling the myth that somehow Barack Obama is good for Democrats down ballot. In the districts that many target Democrats won in 2006, they did so with the help of the kind of rural, church-going, gun-toting voters that Obama appears to disdain.