Hagee comments not likely to hurt McCain

 

John McCain's presidential campaign should not suffer any long-term damage from his association with Pastor John Hagee, says GOP pollster Dave Woodard.

 

 

Pastor Hagee -- founder and national chairman of the group Christians United for Israel -- recently apologized to Catholics for bringing up the anti-Semitic past of their church and suggesting that Catholic anti-Semitism shaped Adolf Hitler's views of Jews. And when Hagee endorsed Senator McCain (R-Arizona) in late February, the Catholic League demanded that McCain repudiate the Texas televangelist.
 
But in an apologetic letter to the Catholic League, Hagee wrote: "Out of a desire to advance a greater unity among Catholics and evangelicals in promoting the common good, I want to express my deep regret for any comments that Catholics have found hurtful."
 
Clemson University political science professor Dave Woodard says the Hagee flap is not likely to significantly hurt McCain's standing with Catholics come November. "... [T]he abortion issue, stem-cell research, those kinds of issues that are close to conservatives and Catholics will be much more important than his association with Hagee," he contends. "... [I] think that probably [this issue] will generally recalculate within another 48 hours."
 
However, Woodard realizes the McCain still needs to win the endorsement of some high-profile conservative leaders in order to bolster his chances of winning the White House. He says that when the general election gets under way and conservatives start to hear his Democratic opponent's liberal "rhetoric," then conservatives will begin to warm up to McCain. The backing of such groups as the Heritage Foundation and Family Research Council, he believes, would deliver an important boost to the McCain campaign.
 
Nevertheless, some liberal activists and commentators have suggested that McCain's ties to Hagee are as damaging as Democratic frontrunner Barack Obama's relationship with his former pastor, Jeremiah Wright.

Hagee, and Pat Robertson are both globalist, they see open borders in the same context as open airways. As an observation I believe all Televangelist are globalist for the same reason, Open Airways. Is this what GOD wants for the 21 century, I don't know.