One is beginning to wonder if John McCain is going to spend this entire campaign denouncing and rejecting supporters rather than bragging about his support of Bush policies. McCain has been pressed to denounce John Hagee, after all, though he has not done so with any certainty, angering Catholics, and that’s all because John McCain wnats to avoid trouble with the Rabid Radical Right-Wing Christian Clerics. Now he’s going to have to go and denounce Rod Parsley (is that a name right out of the credits on a gay porn video or what?). I’m going to bet the “straight talker” John McCain tries to finesse this one. In other words, he’s going to eschew straight talk. Here’s what John McCain’s “spiritual advisor” has to say, from Mother Jones:

On February 26, McCain appeared at a campaign rally in Cincinnati with the Reverend Rod Parsley of the World Harvest Church of Columbus, a supersize Pentecostal institution that features a 5,200-seat sanctuary, a television studio (where Parsley tapes a weekly show), and a 122,000-square-foot Ministry Activity Center. That day, a week before the Ohio primary, Parsley praised the Republican presidential front-runner as a “strong, true, consistent conservative.” The endorsement was important for McCain, who at the time was trying to put an end to the lingering challenge from former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee, a favorite among Christian evangelicals. A politically influential figure in Ohio, Parsley could also play a key role in McCain’s effort to win this bellwether state in the general election. McCain, with Parsley by his side at the Cincinnati rally, called the evangelical minister a “spiritual guide.”

The leader of a 12,000-member congregation, Parsley has written several books outlining his fundamentalist religious outlook, including the 2005 Silent No More. In this work, Parsley decries the “spiritual desperation” of the United States, and he blasts away at the usual suspects: activist judges, civil libertarians who advocate the separation of church and state, the homosexual “culture” (”homosexuals are anything but happy and carefree”), the “abortion industry,” and the crass and profane entertainment industry. And Parsley targets another profound threat to the United States: the religion of Islam.

There’s more about Prasley on Mother Jones, and it ain’t pretty. This guy is anything but a man who believes in freedom of religion. Oh yeah, and John McCain should denounce him. But he won’t. He’s too afraid of offending the rabid radical right-wing religious right, even though those folks are going to bring him down in November. To me that means that John McCain hasn’t the judgement to be President. He can’t understand who the people are who are so divisivbe that they are the ones encouraging terrorists.

John McCain will go down because of his supporters who he is unwilling to edistance himself from.

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