So Will St. John Reject and Denounce his Endorser?

I was going to post about this early this morning, but the damn full time job thing kept interfering and now everyone else has had a shot at it.  Eric Kleefeld at TPM does a fabulous job with this story.  But it bears repeating and amplification -- will Timmeh the Pumpkinhead and his acolytes demand that John McCain reject and denounce the support of crazy ass preacher John Hagee?  [Hint kids -- don't hold your collective breath.] Oh wait a minute, McCain appeared on stage and accepted the endorsement of Hagee, who has made anti-semitic and anti Catholic statements that would make Farrakhan proud.  Doesn't that require more than the rejecting and denouncing of unsolicited support -- wouldn't it require an apology on top of that?  Probably not for St. John.  We know in his heart he rejects the words of the man whose support he actively sought.  That's just the kind of guy he is.   

Glenn Greenwald has a must read post on this issue and the furious reaction of the lefty blogosphere's  good friend Bill Donohue.  It will be interesting to see if Donohue gets as much coverage for this as when he went after Amanda and Melissa.  As Greenwald notes, this could be used incredibly effectively against McCain if St. John does not quickly back pedal from this. (Big tip o' the hat to litbrit for sending this one to me.)

Comments

[Stephen]

Hagee fascinates me. When the US invaded Iraq, Hagee's platform charts - he's a big fan of elaborate charts - all focused on Saddam Hussein as a potential Antichrist figure and the Iraq War as possibly being the catalyst that will spark Armageddon.

When Saddam's government fell, the very next week there were new charts on the platform. No mention was made about Hagee's claims regarding Saddam. The new charts were much more generalized end-times junk.

Hagee flits from one thing to the next, each becoming in its turn the ture clear sign of the Rapture, or the 2nd coming, or the 7 years of Tribulation, or Armageddon or any of the other made-up, extra-biblical doctrines these people have. And he never gets called on it. It's remarkable.

[Sir Charles]

Stephen,

I wonder if he thinks arming an angry old man with thermonuclear weapons is the best path to Armageddon.

[Stephen]

I wonder if he thinks arming an angry old man with thermonuclear weapons is the best path to Armageddon.

Nuclear war doesn't actually fit in with premillennial dispensationalist eschatology, since their, um, literal reading of Revelation means that the final battle of Armageddon will feature lots of soldiers and an ocean of blood.

That's why, in the Left Behind books, nuclear war is initiated against Israel but nothing happens.