Poverty of the Soul

It's up to Pat Robertson to decide who he wants to endorse but, really, why do the rest of us have to put up with the rightwing's moralizing if guys like Robertson jettison it when they see fit?
Two things are evident about his endorsement of Giuliani:
1) When push comes to shove, better a not-anti-gay, not-pro-life candidate who knows how to flex his militant rhetorical muscles and thereby increases the chance of a Republican victory, and
2) Anything--anything--is better than a Democrat, particularly if her name is Hillary.
Of course, this isn't the first time Robertson has appeared before the court of Moral Bankruptcy; in 2001 he defended his support for close ties with China despite its one child policy, telling CNN's Wolf Blitzer, "I don't agree with it, but at the same time they've got 1.2 billion people and they don't know what to do."
So how does this square--okay, it doesn't, but anyway--with comments like this: "One of the things we must protect from the moment of conception to the moment of natural death is the life of people"?
What's disturbing, really, isn't the hypocrisy--such things are par for the course; it's that this fellow has followers who are willing to go along with him and take upon themselves (by acquiesence, at least) the moral responsibility for these words.