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As several of my colleagues have noted, Rudy Giuliani has been endorsed by Pat Robertson, which according to smart conservative commentators is a "big plus." A depressing, if unsurprising, thought. Not only is Robertson an arch-reactionary who thought that with respect to 9/11 that the U.S. had it coming (especially ironic for Mr. "Noun-Verb-9/11"), Robertson is a purveyor of crank anti-Semitic conspiracy theories. As Michael Lind found:
Robertson's theories about Jewish bankers and Jewish revolutionaries are central to his conspiracy theory, which in turn is central to his vision of his own destiny, his movement, and his ambitions for the American Right and the Republican party and the United States of America. Not since Father Coughlin or Henry Ford has a prominent white American so boldly and unapologetically blamed the disasters of modern world history on the machinations of international high finance in general and on a few influential Jews in particular. And not since Huey Long, with his Share Our Wealth movement, has there been a radical populist movement as powerful in American politics as Robertson's Christian Coalition.A lunatic conspiracy theorist endorsing someone with lunatic foreign policy views; seems about right.--Scott Lemieux
