The Daily Beast’s headline reads, “Perry Camp’s Anti-Mormon Message.”

The Daily Beast has obtained a series of e-mails that show an influential evangelical activist with close ties to the Perry campaign stressing the political importance of “juxtaposing traditional Christianity to the false God of Mormonism,” and calling for a “clarion call to Evangelical pastors and pews” that will be “the key to the primary” for Perry.

But the article doesn’t link the emails to anyone on the campaign. At most it sounds like ministers who support Gov. Perry have discussed using anti-Mormonism to hurt Romney. But there doesn’t appear to be any evidence of a direct tie to the Perry campaign.

However, it seems more damaging that Perry refuses to disavow the pastor who kicked off the past week’s Anti-Mormon brouhaha. And yet, Perry and his wife have the temerity to claim their campaign has suffered because of their faith? It looks like Perry studied the Huckabee 2008 playbook on how to have it both ways.