I got nothin', I just wanted an excuse to post this picture.



No, actually, I do have something...do people take Pat Robertson seriously?  Look, it probably helps in a general sense because it might talk down some of the social cons who are threatening to pull the trigger and go third party or stay home, but people who think this is a big boost to Rudy himself are I think gravely mistaken.

In fact, I'm not sure it helps him with the popular social con movement in a huge way either.  These religious endorsements are of limited use, particularly with Protestants, who will simply find new leaders (we Papists know how you guys love to split off to do your own thing). 

Beyond that is the undercurrent that people are forgetting and I keep bringing up, and that's the Second Amendment types.  Neither Rudy or Mitt are paying proper attention to them and mending fences.  They aren't as shrill as the Evangelical leadership, but they probably hold as much or more clout, and you ignore them at your peril.   They can and have made and broken candidates, and if you don't believe me, I'll leave you the words of a former President (from the NRA Wiki),

"The NRA had a great night. They beat both Speaker Tom Foley and Jack Brooks, two of the ablest members of Congress, who had warned me this would happen. Foley was the first Speaker to be defeated in more than a century. Jack Brooks had supported the NRA for years and had led the fight against the assault weapons ban in the House, but as chairman of the Judiciary Committee he had voted for the overall crime bill even after the ban was put into it. The NRA was an unforgiving master: one strike and you're out. The gun lobby claimed to have defeated nineteen of the twenty-four members on its hit list. They did at least that much damage and could rightly claim to have made Gingrich the House Speaker."

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