Why don’t they actually picket gay rights rallies (because they’re agent provacateurs for the Democrats)? Why do they only send women and children to picket for them now (because the last time they sent guys out, they got the crap kicked out of them and “nobody saw anything”)?
Bingo. When Phelps ran for office AS A DEMOCRAT, he openly campaigned as an unabashed liberal. He's playing a rather convenient reverse psychology game.