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Well, all those dead embryos the “pro lifers” make a squawk about must be turning over in their graves today. Pat Robertson has endorsed pro-choice GOP candidate Rudy Giuliani, saying Rudy is “more than acceptable to people of faith.” Rudy enthusiastically accepted the endorsement as he tries to get the Religious Right to forget his liberal stances on social issues like abortion and gay rights.

This must be a sad, sad day for all the fundies out there. I mean, Robertson endorsing Rudy must be kind of like it would be if Jesse Jackson endorsed David Duke: a huge slap in the face to the constituency.

It also goes to underscore the point made by Alan Greenspan in his recent book: that Republicans care more about power just for the sake of power than they do about principles. I mean, do these people really care about abortion, or are they using images of cut up embryos just to get elected? Seems more like the latter than the former to me. I also had no idea faith could be “relative”–that it’s ok to “kill babies” as long as you think your guy has the best chance of getting elected.

It will be interesting to see the reaction from the evangelicals.