No One Spins a Conspiracy Theory Like TV Preacher Pat Robertson

Pat Robertson’s embrace of the malefactor is totally predictable, those fundamentalist Moral Majority types love them some GOP miscreants. So blame it on his wife, blame it Obama, and forget about that personal responsibility thing…

But as Right Wing Watch reports today, Robertson had an especially entertaining argument on the subject today.

Is Bob McDonnell the latest Religious Right “victim” of President Obama’s purported persecution of conservatives? Today on “The 700 Club,” Pat Robertson and Jay Sekulow did their best to paint the former Republican governor of Virginia as the victim of a “political prosecution,” decrying his corruption trial as a “political witch hunt” spearheaded by Attorney General Eric Holder.

Robertson alleged, without any evidence, that Holder wanted to stop Mitt Romney from tapping McDonnell as his running mate in 2012 and is “behind all of this stuff.”

So, let me get this straight. The former Virginia governor, facing all kinds of serious corruption allegations and a mountain of evidence, was the subject of a lengthy investigation from criminal prosecutors. Last year, those prosecutors delayed McDonnell’s criminal indictment so as to avoid interfering with the state’s gubernatorial race. Eventually, a grand jury agreed to indict.

But Robertson and the lead of Robertson’s far-right legal group believe that’s just a ruse. What’s really happening, they assure us, is that U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder is out to get McDonnell for political reasons.

“It is just one more reason why this administration is just destroying this nation,” Robertson said.

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