Evangelical icon and right wing extremist Pat Robertson has now branded Republican voters’ positions as “counterproductive,” and says they are pushing the party too far to the right to win a general election, adding that if they want to win in 2012, the game they’re playing right now is “the game for losers.”
Brian Tashman at Right Wing Watch reports that Robertson, himself once a GOP presidential candidate, “warned that the Republican primary base is pushing their party’s potential nominees to such extremes that they will be unelectable.”
Here’s the transcript of Robertson’s warning:
I believe it was Lyndon Johnson that said, ‘Don’t these people realize if they push me over to an extreme position I’ll lose the election? And I’m the one who will be supporting what they want but they’re going to make it so I can’t win.’ Those people in the Republican primary have got to lay off of this stuff. They’re forcing their leaders, the frontrunners, into positions that will mean they lose the general election. Now whether this did it to Cain I don’t know, but nevertheless, you appeal to the narrow base and they’ll applaud the daylights out of what you’re saying and then you hit the general election and they say ‘no way’ and then the Democrat, whoever it is, is going to just play these statements to the hilt. They’ve got to stop this! It’s just so counterproductive!
Well, if they want to lose, this is the game for losers.
Just last month, Robertson was in hot water himself for comments he made encouraging a man to leave his wife because she had Alzheimers. In June, Robertson said that God would destroy America because same-sex marriage became legal in New York. Robertson has also said that liberals want abortion to be legal so lesbians can be equal. And infamously, last year in the wake of the most devastating earthquake in Haiti’s history, Pat Robertson told Haitian Christians that they need “a great turning to God,†because hey made a “pact with the Devil†to free themselves from the French. Basically, saying that hundreds of years ago, Haiti mortgaged the lives of their children to Satan.
Good to know Robertson thinks Republican voters are the extreme ones. I mean, of course they are, but come on!
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