UPDATE: Allahpundit of Hot Air concurs that this will drive some of the Fundies away from McWAR:
Exit question one, which I’ve asked before: This is bound to alienate some evangelicals. What can Maverick do to win them back, short of putting Huckabee — who once complained that Hagee hadn’t endorsed him — on the ticket?
McCain rejects pastor's endorsement
By LIBBY QUAID – 58 minutes ago
STOCKTON, Calif. (AP) — Republican John McCain on Thursday rejected endorsements from two influential but controversial televangelists, saying there is no place for their incendiary criticisms of other faiths.
McCain rejected the months-old endorsement of Texas preacher John Hagee after an audio recording surfaced in which the preacher said God sent Adolf Hitler to help Jews reach the promised land. McCain called the comment "crazy and unacceptable."
He later repudiated the support of Rod Parsley, an Ohio preacher who has sharply criticized Islam and called the religion inherently violent.
McCain issued a statement Thursday afternoon announcing his decision about Hagee.
"Obviously, I find these remarks and others deeply offensive and indefensible, and I repudiate them. I did not know of them before Reverend Hagee's endorsement, and I feel I must reject his endorsement as well," he said.
Later, in Stockton, he told reporters: "I just think that the statement is crazy and unacceptable."
Then in an interview with The Associated Press, McCain said he rejected Parsley's support, too.
"I believe there is no place for that kind of dialogue in America, and I believe that even though he endorsed me, and I didn't endorse him, the fact is that I repudiate such talk, and I reject his endorsement," McCain told the AP.
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I believe Phillip Weiss of Mondoweiss blog, or one of his commentors, have now challenged/asked AIPAC to repudiate
these Christian Zionists. To date the Likudist (dual loyalist) position has been "hey if the Jesus and the Rapture comes,I'll convert at Armageddon;until that happens all that matters is they support (the right wing parties in)Israel with their $ and votes."
http://www.usatoday.com/news/religion/2008-05-21-jewish-new-testament_N.htm
The whole Christian Zionist movement (dispensational premillenialism, to use the theological term) is, from a traditional conservative, traditional Christian viewpoint, both heretical in its reading of Bible prophecy, proper land ownership etc., but also decadent and, ironically, defeatist in the extreme,as the above story hints.
http://desertpeace.wordpress.com/2008/05/23/norman-finkelstein-arrested-in-israel/
One of Israel's effective American Jewish critics arrested and to be deported! McCain's vaunted democracy at work.
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