The mixed up, muddled up, shook up world of the Republican party continued yesterday when three different factions of the party backed three different candidates for the GOP presidential nomination:
Kansas senator Sam Brownback endorsed John McCain.
Conservative stalwart Paul Weyrich endorsed Mitt Romney.
Christian conservative icon Pat Robertson endorsed Rudy Giuliani.
Omnipotent religious figure God endorsed Mike Huckabee.
Couple of surprises there, especially the last one. But Daniel Larison of Eunomia (one of the more intelligent Republican conservative blogs around) discounts the Pat Robertson move:
The endorsements of Brownback and Robertson represent two distinct kinds of religious conservatism, one of which is, for good or ill, on the rise and the other which is in decline. Brownback, whatever else I might say about him, represents a new generation of religious conservative political leadership.... Robertson is one of the last of the old guard whose political influence has actually been on the wane for some time. The endorsement of Giuliani seems to me to be a rather sad cry for attention, a last attempt to be relevant in presidential politics by doing something 'surprising'.
