Pat Robertson endorses Giuliani

[maseman]

Source: MSNBC

WASHINGTON - Pat Robertson, a prominent Christian leader and social conservative, endorsed Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani, at a news conference this morning in Washington, D.C.

The former New York mayor backs abortion rights and gay rights, positions that put him in conflict with GOP orthodoxy, and has been trying to convince cultural conservatives to overlook their differences with him on those issues. That makes the support of a high-profile religious conservative like Robertson a particular boon.



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Did hell freeze over?

Wow the religious right would rather vote for a homo lovin' abortion lovin' New Yorker before a Mormon. I love the division.

[msongs]

1. not to mention a serial adulterer - robertson's religious hypocrisy is driven by $$$ nt

[geardaddy]

9. Yep.

I thought up a great bumpersticker for Pat: "I'm not a Christian, but I play one on TV."

[onehandle]

2. That will make fundies go for a gay-friendly cross-dressing abortionist?

Doubtful.

[Orsino]

3. This is simply crazy endorsing crazy.

Giuliani's simply the closest to Robertson's alternate reality.

[liberal N proud]

4. One lunatic endorsing another

Robertson and his followers wont even get the hypocrisy here.

[DirtyJersey]

5. It's simple, really...

A lot of the fundies (Dobson, et al) are trying to derail Giuliani. Robertson think he'll win, so he's taking the opposite approach; endorsing him so he can take credit if he wins.

[susanna]

36. "G*d told me to do it!" = PR's fallback position n/t

[graywarrior]

6. Like I needed another reason to despise the two of them even more

[pattmarty]

7. This might come back to bite that crazy motherfucker in the ass.

[GrantDem]

14. Which one???

[acmavm]

8. All Robertson did was pledge his allegiance to who he thinks his

new master will be. Nothing more, nothing less.

[shaniqua6392]

10. All of the Evangelicals I know, and I know a lot of them....

will NEVER vote for Guilani. The will stay home on election day if that is there only choice. They would not vote for a pro choice candidate if their lives depended on it. The media may be portraying Guiliani as the "front runner" but he will never get any of the Christian Conservative Right Wing vote. Not in a million years. They only want Supreme Court Justices appointed that will overturn Roe v. Wade and prevent gay marriage from ever passing. If not for those two issues, most of them would not even bother to vote imo.

[Doctor_J]

11. This is true

<y daughter has some ultra-Catholic friends who usually vote GOP because of the abortion issue. They have told here that there is NO WAY they will vote for Rudy.

[ClintonTyree]

12. I don't know....

I never underestimate the hypocrisy of the religious right. They can justify anything in the world by simply twisting scripture, and they have.

[JeanGrey]

39. I agree! They can and they will. Especially if he is running

against Hillary...................

[LeftishBrit]

13. Urrrrgggghhhhh!!!

I'm a bit surprised Robertson would endorse Mr. 9-11; hasn't he had rather a lot of wives? It must mean that he's horribly right-wing. I'd have thought Robertson would go more for Brownback?

[KamaAina]

15. "Throwback" dropped out of the race a couple of weeks ago

but surely Huckabee would be more to Marion Pat's liking?

[underpants]

16. Rudy has the power to divert hurricanes

[Justitia]

17. Nice to see he has the courage of his convictions - LOL! Hypocrites all around. -eom

[0xDEADBEEF]

18. We can have fun with this.

Sounds like Pat Robertson has anointed Rudy as Christ's Chosen Apostle to the Evangelical Protestants.
It will be his duty to pick up and continue where Bush has left off.

A little Coleridge seems appropriate right now....
"Instead of the Cross, the albatross from around my neck was hung."

[maseman]

19. Maybe Pat is trying to live vicariously through Rudy

[BlueStater]

20. So a guy who thinks gays were responsible for 9/11...

...has endorsed a frequent cross-dresser who once lived with a homosexual couple.

Why do these fuckheads still have any credibility left?

[Divine Discontent]

26. amen!

THAT is the EXACT comment I hope Keith and others will say on the radio and TV....

excellent.

[tomg]

21. Okay, so we have Pestilence and Destruction

Anyone see the other two?

It's the end of the world as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine.

Six o'clock - TV hour. Don't get caught in foreign towers.
Slash and burn, return, listen to yourself churn.
Locking in, uniforming, book burning, blood letting.
Every motive escalate. Automotive incinerate.
Light a candle, light a votive. Step down, step down.
Watch your heel crush, crushed, uh-oh, this means no fear cavalier.
Renegade steer clear!
A tournament, tournament, a tournament of lies.
Offer me solutions, offer me alternatives and I decline.

It's the end of the world as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine.

[xxqqqzme]

22. How much did that cost I wonder?

[GreenPartyVoter]

23. *jaw drops* Not Huckabee???

[James Delinis]

28. Huckabee went off the reservation

...with his tax hikes, and he isn't blessed by the boys of Wall Street. These hucksters are businessmen, not religious figures.

[Divine Discontent]

29. this has got to wake up the last of the final conscious moderate GOPers & independents

because you're right, it's all about money - no religious figure who blames gay people for 9/11 is going to endorse a guy that lived with an open gay couple and supports civil unions, unless it's only about money - because there's several other hardcore GOP candidates that are just as much gay haters (at least in rhetoric) as Pat is...

$HOW ME THE MONEY! is what this say...

welcome to DU

[Endangered Specie]

24. The sound you hear is exploding freeper heads...

what will they do, ban pat robertson? they already banned Guli.

[Divine Discontent]

25. oh, my, lollll

love your comment....


it's true it's true...


LOVE IT!!

[James Delinis]

27. Not news

One fascist endorses another. Nothing to see here.

[Jersey Ginny]

30. I thought that Robertson was dead

Which one of the christofacists died recently if it wasn't Robertson?

[KAZ]

31. That's weird. I hoped. n/t

[Dark]

32. It was that Falwell fuck. n/t

[genieroze]

33. In the words of Larry Flint... It's Fartwell

[knight_of_the_star]

34. So who wants to start keeping track of the exploded heads?

Cause I know there's going to be quite a few happening now

[susanna]

35. No flames on this one?!

Or did I miss an earlier thread?

[BenDavid]

37. Here again the right wing will be facing a dilemma:

One do they want the power or two will they stay with their beliefs.

Here is the dilemma they on the religious right face. If they vote for Rudy then they will be a hyprocrite. Pure and simple. Then afterwards they on the right can never question a democrat that is pro choice and for gay rights. They cannot call anyone on the left a "baby killer" because if they do then they must call Rudy a "baby killer" too.....

Oh I am sure those on the right can find a way to justify their voting for Rudy. But if I have learned anything and that is G-d knows the heart and if they vote for Rudy with the idea that their Saviour will forgive them then they are playing a dangerous game.

So the question remains will they on the right go after the power or stay with their beliefs?

Ben David

[okoboji]

38. wow

Pat must think that Rudy can bring about the rapture.

[LibDemAlways]

40. Wouldn't you like to take a peek at Guiliani's personal

checking account? How much do you suppose he "donated" to Pat Robertson this week? I'd be willing to bet it's substantial.

[silvershadow]

41. I could be wrong, but isn't that the kiss of death?

[shenmue]

42. That was one of the weirdest moments I've seen in a long time

My eyes still hurt.

[Blue_Tires]

43. lol

i wonder how much that 'endorsement' cost....i guess Mitt's check didn't clear

[windoe]

44. Hopefully the death knell for the Goul

campaign. His stink of corruption just got a spray of evangelical holy water....good try.

[pepperbear]

45. so huckabee really is considered that unelectable? n/t