The Flip-Flop Express Rolls On
After actively seeking the endorsement of John Hagee and defending Hagee’s endorsement against critics who pointed out Hagee’s record of anti-Catholic rhetoric, John McCain has finally ‘rejected and renounced’ pastor Hagee and his endorsement.
"Obviously, I find these remarks and others deeply offensive and indefensible, and I repudiate them," McCain said of the remarks by John Hagee. "I did not know of them before Reverend Hagee’s endorsement, and I feel I must reject his endorsement as well."
If making a career of calling the Catholic Church the ‘Great Whore’ wasn’t enough to make John McCain reject the endorsement he actively sought out, what changed his mind?
"’And they the hunters should hunt them,’ that will be the Jews. ‘From every mountain and from every hill and from out of the holes of the rocks.’ If that doesn’t describe what Hitler did in the Holocaust, you can’t see that," Hagee had said.
I guess Catholics now know where they stand with McCain. It’s okay to bash the Catholic Church, calling it the ‘Great Whore’, but McCain draws the line when it comes to saying the Holocaust was God’s will to drive the Jews back to Eretz Yisrael.
I am reminded of the albatross that the GOP hung around John Kerry’s neck in the 2004 election.
John McCain: He was for Pastor Hagee before he was against him!