McCain's Preachers Problems

I grew up in a home that had John Hagee on television every day. The TV never really left TBN very much at all. That's just how it was. To this day I will find myself stopping on a Hagee sermon or a Benny Hinn heal-a-thon just because I grew up around that stuff. But even growing up I always questioned a lot of what the televangelists said and did. When I was old enough to make decisions on my own about church and religion, I never fully subscribe to everything I heard in church or on TBN. So it comes as no surprise to me when I see stuff like Hagee saying that Hitler was ordained with God's will for the Holocaust.

That's what Hagee and Rod Parsley do. They use whatever they can to build a following and to keep a following. Mostly with scare tactics and mostly with morals and values but always with what they interpret as The Bible. It was good to finally see a Republican presidential candidate reject Hagee and Parsley's hate speech. I've been waiting on the GOP to break with the wacko Christian Right for a long time now. I think McCain's sudden departure is a good thing for the future of the GOP. However, McCain's latest slap in the face to so-called conservatives does equate into lost votes. But for the future, which obviously I'm not intending to be this election, this is a bold move for McCain and the GOP.

I do think it's time for McCain to give a speech about his relationship with Hagee, or at least answer some questions as to why he sought his endorsement in the first place and how does he explain all the great things he has said about Hagee over the years.