We thought there might be some more time to sort all this out but it looks like a few people want to get it out of the way so they can concentrate on Christmas shopping. We were previously on the fence over the earlier dates for some of the primaries for party nominations. We weren’t comfortable with them but couldn’t come up with a real reason why so we we’re just “playing it by ear”. Well, now we have an actual reason: Pat Robertson has come out for Rudy. Read attached AP article, here.
We’ve been told over the years that Pat Robertson is one of the 3 or 4 most influential people in this alleged monolithic entity known as the “Christian Right”. And the term “alleged” is used because its always been the conventional wisdom that the “Christian Right” moved and acted as one. But as the article notes, the leading actors in the “Christian Right” are all endorsing different GOP candidates. Of course, this isn’t described as an example of “diversity” but rather as this supposed voting bloc being “splintered”.
But back to Pat and Rudy. This shacking-up represents the folly of moving primaries to the left because it, in turn, reduces the amount of time voters have to consider candidates in a calm, rational manner before they feel the need to hit the AbH (Anybody but Hillary) button as Pat Robertson has obviously done. We can see no other motive than this for a social conservative, Robertson, endorsing a man who has supported abortion rights and gay marriage.
Robertson can say all he wants about national security trumping social issues but its crystal clear why it is that he has endorsded Giuliani. And that’s a shame because the coronation of Hillary as her Party’s standard-bearer for the Presidential election is not nearly the lock it was just 2 weeks ago so its far to early to be hitting any AbH panic button just yet.
And do you know how we know its Christmastime, already? Because Starbu
ck’s said it is, OK?
We’ve been told over the years that Pat Robertson is one of the 3 or 4 most influential people in this alleged monolithic entity known as the “Christian Right”. And the term “alleged” is used because its always been the conventional wisdom that the “Christian Right” moved and acted as one. But as the article notes, the leading actors in the “Christian Right” are all endorsing different GOP candidates. Of course, this isn’t described as an example of “diversity” but rather as this supposed voting bloc being “splintered”.
But back to Pat and Rudy. This shacking-up represents the folly of moving primaries to the left because it, in turn, reduces the amount of time voters have to consider candidates in a calm, rational manner before they feel the need to hit the AbH (Anybody but Hillary) button as Pat Robertson has obviously done. We can see no other motive than this for a social conservative, Robertson, endorsing a man who has supported abortion rights and gay marriage.
Robertson can say all he wants about national security trumping social issues but its crystal clear why it is that he has endorsded Giuliani. And that’s a shame because the coronation of Hillary as her Party’s standard-bearer for the Presidential election is not nearly the lock it was just 2 weeks ago so its far to early to be hitting any AbH panic button just yet.
And do you know how we know its Christmastime, already? Because Starbu
ck’s said it is, OK?
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When I read the title of this post, I thought it was going to be on the new surge within Evangelical Christians of the "Green Movement" mentioned on MSNBC yesterday, with a belief that Christians need to protect God's creations. I will have seen it all when Julia "Butterfly" Hill and Oral Roberts/Pat Robertson/Jimmy Swaggart climb the trees for the long-haul outside Berkeley's Memorial Stadium! - Mongo
Mongo, I think one of those guys is dead. So can that person be a place-holder while the other 3 watch the game from tightwad hill?
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