Frist Can't Be Happy

For ages, I’ve seen no point in Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist running for president, and even less in anyone taking a Frist candidacy seriously. He’s got no natural constituency, and he’s only got his powerful position in the Senate because he’s a Bush yes-man and Trent Lott doesn’t know how to keep his mouth closed. Clearly, Frist realized he had a problem of potential support, as well, which is why he’s gone to such trouble to court the religious right. I believe (and I’m hardly the only one who does) his recent video appearance at “Justice Sunday” to curry favor with the religious right against the demonic filibuster was a transparent attempt to garner support for 2008.

He can’t have been happy with Pat Robertson comments on yesterday’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos. I preface this by saying that no one should take Pat Robertson seriously, of course, but if you’re trying to cozy up to him and his supporters, I guess it kind of goes with the territory. Sunday Morning Talk has the details:

ROBERTSON: Bill is a wonderfully compassionate human being. He is humanitarian. He goes on medical missions. He's a delightful person. I just don't see him as a future president. I think he's said he didn't want to run for president. Maybe I'm putting words in his mouth.

Maybe he is. What do you think?

I’m sorry I missed the broadcast, because Pat looks to have been in fine entertainment form. Atrios points us to this New York Daily News headline: “Robertson: Judges worse than Al Qaeda.” And back at Sunday Morning Talk, we can see that, although Pat could support a Rudy Giuliani candidacy, “McCain I'd vote against under any circumstance.” In relation to judges, he said, “It's a tyranny of an oligarchy that I'm concerned about”--that’s right, he wants a tyranny of a fundamentalarchy instead.