RE: Big Mouth Pat

The real problem with "Big Mouth Pat" is this:

For them he serves a delightful dual purpose: entertainment value, and he enables them to broad brush Christianity with clown paint.

It also allows leftists, both secular and those of the Christian "pretender" variety, to besmirch Christianity and Christians. Those leftists (some of whom will be familiar to regular readers of the BP) will then make sweeping claims based on the (wrong) assumption that all Christians agree with Robertson or that their faith makes them in any way beholden to walk, lemming-like behind Robertson. They will also try to make arguments that because we haven't put out a hit on Robertson or taken up a collection to get his mouth permantly duct-taped shut, that he speaks for Christians and Christianity at large. Of course those same leftists pount and whine when someone like, say, Ann Coulter, pastes them with some of the dumber things uttered by the more flamboyant dimwits on their side (e.g. Howie Dean, Michael Moore, Cindy Sheehan, etc.).