The Rittenhouse Review

A Philadelphia Journal of Politics, Finance, Ethics, and Culture


Friday, November 11, 2005  

PAT ROBERTSON: BEYOND THE FRINGE
Still Welcome in the Republican Party?

Wait, was someone, perhaps even I, just two days ago, echoing the sentiments of those who suggested Kansas this week had become the laughingstock of the nation, that for its new policy on science education?

I take it back, at least in part.

The new, the real, laughingstock is G.O.P. stalwart and sometime preacher Pat “Don’t Ask for God’s Help” Robertson.

Just wondering . . . Will the reverend get a prime-time slot at the next Republican National Convention? Some of us, more than a few, are awaiting the required disavowals of this nutcase.

[Post-publication addendum: For the most local of local coverage of this issue, see “‘You Voted God Out,’” by Charlotte Tucker and Teresa McMinn in today’s York (Pa.) Daily Record.]

[Post-publication addendum (November 13): See also, “God Don’t Play That,” by Julia of Sisyphus Shrugged.]

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