Say good-bye to the possibility of a social conservative third-party run.

The Washington Post has video of Pat Robertson at the National Press Club endorsing Rudy Giuliani this morning.

This indicates three things:

  1. Rudy Giuliani is not "moderate on gay rights" or "pro-choice" like the tired media narrative on him says (even the WaPo link above says that, ugh), and he's doing a good job of convincing people of that behind the scenes.
  2. Pat Robertson, and other leaders of the Religious Right like him, don't want to support a candidate who has a purer record and history out of fear that they'll end up supporting a loser and be exposed the non-power-brokers they are now in the larger conservative movement.
  3. Tax cuts still outweigh everything else for Republicans, and threat construction is the only trick they know to get there.
But don't mind the gay blogger in the corner here, telling everyone that Rudy's just as bad as all the other Republican primary candidates on LGBT rights. He dressed in drag! He has gay friends! Yeah, well, Dick Cheney even has a gay daughter, but I don't hear him speaking to the House about a trans-inclusive ENDA.

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