What's God got to do with it? - Democratic Underground

NMMNG

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Fri Nov-09-07 09:55 AM
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What's God got to do with it?

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Pat Robertson's endorsement Wednesday of Rudy Giuliani for president just shifted "strange bedfellows" into "the weird turn pro" category. Robertson, who famously blamed Hurricane Katrina on our wanton ways - and urged the assassination of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez - announced his vote of confidence, saying that Giuliani has "proven time and time again that he is a social conservative."

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But even conservative judges and Giuliani's tough posture on terrorism fail to tell what many believe is really behind Robertson's anointing of the most liberal Republican candidate for president. The real issue isn't fetuses or embryos or same-sex unions or bearded bad guys.

It's Clintons.

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For now, it would appear that pragmatism is virtue, and religion on the right means beating Hillary.

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riqster

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Fri Nov-09-07 10:04 AM
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1. What's Pat Robertson got to do with God? nt

Edited on Fri Nov-09-07 10:04 AM by riqster

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Fri Nov-09-07 10:07 AM
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2. That's a very good question

Nobody seems to have found an answer yet.

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Fri Nov-09-07 10:15 AM
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3. The radical right has a pathological fear of the Clintons.

Hence the bogus impeachment of Bill and Robertson's endorsement of Giuliani. These people would endorse Satan himself if he was running against Hillary.

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Fri Nov-09-07 10:49 AM
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4. they have an affinity for serial adulterers nt

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NMMNG

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Fri Nov-09-07 12:05 PM
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6. They do

Funny how they don't mind adultery, which is forbidden in the 10 Commandments, yet demonize gays to the hilt.

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Kuni

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Fri Nov-09-07 11:53 AM
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5. Dear Pat: God doesn't play dice with politics -- remember?

PM Carpenter raises an excellent point.

http://pmcarpenter.blogs.com/p_m_carpenters_commentary/2007/11/dear-pat-god-do.html
. . . A coup, mind you -- the shamanistic blessing of a senile televangelist who revels in fantastical spooks and demonology, and who can't even keep his spooks and demons straight.

Yesterday, for instance, while endorsing Rudy, Mr. Robertson said "the overriding issue before the American people is the defense of our population from the blood lust of Islamic terrorists," although it wasn't that long ago that Robertson breathlessly declared that "activist judges" were the real and uppermost danger to the United States, "probably more serious than a few bearded terrorists who fly into buildings."

I could, of course, offer a long list of Robertson's other verbal jewels of certifiable dementia -- from his chiming agreement with Jerry Falwell's own peculiar demonologies to his open espousal, in Jesus' name, of political assassination -- but they're so well known, why bother. The man is bughouse daft, and he's made a career of advertising it. . .

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NMMNG

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Fri Nov-09-07 12:13 PM
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7. And all along I thought gays and feminists were the biggest threat

Aren't we the ones who caused Katrina? :crazy:

Robertson is batshit crazy, and he'll say whatever he thinks will get him what he wants. Like most of the RW he thinks nothing of lying and manipulating. The thing is he's just not as good at keeping his whacky stories straight as some of the others.

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