Pat Robertson Endorses Giuliani

[ihavenobias]

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Rudy Giuliani is proud to have Robertson aboard, but it raises an interesting question...

[Dollface]

1. Robertson is delusional if he actually believes he has any influence on Ghouliani. Can you

imagine what good old Rudi says about him in private? This is even more absurd than if Robertson endorsed tha pagan Romney, which of course he may also do.

[David Zephyr]

2. Watch this video and e=mail it to your friends and family.

K&R

[ooglymoogly]

3. That is what happens when a bunch of village idiots

elevate one of their own to speak for them....Oh and that goes for * as well. Village idiots have got to stick together if they want to make a their 30 pieces of silver for selling the country.

[CGowen]

4. yeah it's all fake

http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/ny-usrudy1108,0,3215022.story?coll=ny_wire_utility

Robertson said Wednesday he set aside his differences with Giuliani on issues such as abortion because he believes that fighting the war against terrorists is more urgent.

"To me, the overriding issue before the American people is the defense of our population from the bloodlust of Islamic terrorists," Robertson said. "We need a leader with a bold vision who is not afraid to tackle the challenges ahead."

[Plucketeer]

5. What do you get when

....two fruitcakes embrace? An even bigger loathsome loaf! :puke:

[PurpleChez]

6. I hardly consider myself a pundit,

but some time ago I said that I will not be surprised in the least if some sort of "deal" is struck allowing fundies, thumpers, and what-not to vote for Ghouliani. These people are not about faith but rather about total obedience to their established authority figures. And if one of those figures gets up in front of the congregation and says "Vote Rudy!" they'll vote Rudy. And they'll make out like it came straight from the lips of God Himself. This is why a Hillary nomination scares me--not because I don't like her (which I really don't), but because I still believe that she will split Dems and unite the GOP (who think that she is a cross between Tokyo Rose and Satan), at least enough to get a Thug elected in spite of their party's abysmal present situation.

[tomreedtoon]

10. Don't you see it as kind of desperation?

Naturally, no one in the Christian Right wants to endorse a Democrat. And all the Republicans in the race have "problems" in their view. But if they don't play a candidate of some kind, they will lose the political power they sold their spirituality to gain.

And Robertson won't try a third party run for a truly Christian candidate. He tried that before, and of course he knew it was a nifty scam to get more money out of the faithful. But he knows that such a candidate would never work, and since he wouldn't be that candidate, he can't simply end his candidacy, take all the loot and go spend it on...whatever personal stuff he spends it on.

So given that, Robertson looked at all the candidates, held his nose and picked what he thought was the least offensive to him. I don't believe it either; I would've thought the transvestitism would have been an official turnoff for Robertson (what it may do for him privately I won't guess).

[PurpleChez]

12. I agree totally

In fact, I've long felt that much of what the Christian Reich does comes not from the supposed strength of their faith but rather from fear. Many of them have to realize that the march of time is against them...not against faith per se but against their anti-intellectual, anti-science, fear-all-change philosophy. I think, for instance, that they insist on having prayers before public school football games, not because their faith is so strong, but because they're in a panic, because they realize at some level that they are increasingly on "the outside". I have long found it very suspicious that these people, who are so quick to tell us how strong their faith is, so often insist that the gov't (which they so often revile) should reinforce their faith at every turn, and that they seem to believe that pop songs, video games, and TV shows will undermine their bedrock faith unless their faith is enforced as law.

[PurpleChez]

13. Sorry my other response was so rambling

it's just that I agree that much of what the religious right does is based on fear and desparation. And I think that the desparation comes from a realization at some level, despite their influence at this moment and in this country, that they probably will not be able to maintain such influence for any extended period of time without ramming "faith" down our collective throats on a constant basis.

[Perry Logan]

7. And here I thought Pat Robertson was dead. Damn.

[CGowen]

8. Pat Robertson to Greg Palast: "I am not a 'televangelist, I am a businessman."

..

Reverend Pat Robertson has a tough time with the separation of church and hate. But Pat Robertson is not crazy. He is, in fact, one of the most ingenious, un-crazymen I've ever met. And the most calculating and viperous. Those who dismiss him as some cornpone, Bible-thumping Elmer Gantry fruitcake have dangerously underestimated him and his reach into political and financial power centers in Washington and abroad.

He never speaks for himself. Whether he speaks for God, I can't say, but certainly Dr. Robertson uses his television platform to preach the evangel of the elite to which he was born. His father, U.S. Senator Absalom Willis Robertson, was the mentor of Senator Prescott Bush. "I am not a 'televangelist,'" he told me. "I am a businessman."

..

http://www.handsoffvenezuela.org/greg_palast_assassination_chavez.htm

[ihavenobias]

9. If he's not crazy

He's close to it...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/10/31/pat-robertson-halloween-_n_70633.html

[focusfan]

11. I think Jerry Falwell,Pat Robertson are all Crazy

and Rudy is tickled to death to be endorsed as the guy said by
a snake oil salesman.

[ihavenobias]

14. I wish

I wish he *was* selling snake oil. That would be less dangerous than many of his ideas.