Letters to the Editor
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Religious Right Irrelevant
Pat Robertson's early endorsement of Rudy Giuliani was a message that the religious right wanted to maintain its relevance, access to power, and role as "kingmaker" that it gave it such a euphoric high in 2000 and 2004. Many in the movement like Robertson were willing to shoot up again, even if it meant selling out the soul of the movement to a cross-dressing, twice divorced and pro-choice New Yorker. That's some powerful drug to work on the self-righteous.
That Huckabee thinks that this group will forgive him for enabling rapists and murderers to "pray" again is probably right. That he thinks that this voting group remains the kingmaker it was for the last eight years is entirely wrong. This group is just another power-drunk special interest like the rest of them, now unkempt and stumbling for attention.
Jerry Falwell is dead... and I'm hopeful the next four years are spent purging those that remain alive from any relevancy in our government... for all eternity.