calling a spade a shovel

[rone]

Jym Dyer at meme_machine_go suggests that we call Pat Robertson's actions by their proper name: he has issued a fatwah.

Comments

[ptomblin-lj.livejournal.com]

Robertson was a very prominent and respected part of the Republican Party - he's given key note speeches at their conventions and even run for the nomination. He's also a darling of the American Taliban that's currently in charge of the Republican Party and the White House and both Houses.

But you're right, he doesn't officially represent the Republican Party any more.

[dr-strych9.livejournal.com]

Um... Pat Robertson is still an important source of funding and mobilized activists in the Republican Party. The GOP really does have to keep him on a short leash, because if he decides the Party isn't sufficiently servile to his irrational viewpoints, he could put a quick stop to the flow of phat stax of mad bank coming from his followers into the campaign war chests of their loyal representatives in our Chamber of People's Deputies.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

So, the GOP is Anna Nicole Smith and Pat Robertson is the withered geezer she married?

[dr-strych9.livejournal.com]

More like only one of the rich (but stingy), withered geezers among her in-laws, who between them all keep her fat and comfortable.

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

Both Robertson and Pat Buchanan got prime-time slots at the 1992 Republican Convention. They made speeches that scared the crap out of most people, and it was widely agreed to be a terrible tactical error. But I'm not so sure it was; the Republicans lost that election but it may have worked as signaling to the lunatics in the party base that their interests were being kept at heart. Buchanan gets a lot of mileage out of being contrarian, especially when there's a war on, but he always comes back and endorses the Republican presidential candidate in the end.

Same for Robertson; actually, for him it was particularly weird—he'd gone as far as implying that Bush the Elder was part of the Bilderberger/Illuminati/Beast 666/European Community/Elders of ZionInternational Bankers' conspiracy to conquer the world, then turned around and endorsed him. A lovelier example of Crazy People Doublethink you will never find.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Did he come back to endorse the GOP in 2000? I mean, seein' as how he was running on the Reform ticket...