Sometimes you and him should fight.
March 6, 2008
When I wrote about the denouncing gambit a week or so ago I really didn’t expect to be faced with a counter-example so quickly. There are times when it’s appropriate to ask someone whether or not they’re willing to denounce someone who’s endorsed them: for example, Hagee’s endorsement of John McCain.
Why does this differ from Farrakhan’s endorsement of Obama? Well, McCain stood on the stage with Hagee while Hagee endorsed him, McCain’s said multiple times he’s glad to have the endorsement, and McCain would have done neither if he didn’t expect to claim Hagee’s endorsement for political capital.
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March 7th, 2008 at 8:05 am
In his way, Hagee is just as antisemitic as Farrakhan. Hagee — and others like him — believe that ultimately, all Jews will cease to exist as Jews. They’ll all have converted to Christianity. (There’s a funny depiction of this in one of the “Left Behind” movies.)
But really, McCain couldn’t possibly do anything other than drool over Hagee’s endorsement: it represents the acceptance of the Religious Right. Farrakhan’s endorsement and the rejection thereof represented relatively few votes for Obama; there’s considerably more at play when we’re talking about Hagee.