John McCain repudiates Parsley too

Los Angeles Times:

"Later in the day, McCain told the Associated Press that he also repudiated the support of Rod Parsley, an Ohio preacher who has sharply criticized Islam and called the religion inherently violent. 'I believe there is no place for that kind of dialogue in America,' McCain said."

McCain must have been sitting in an awkward place for sometime. He had to know something about these wackjobs when he recruited their endorsement.

I didn't attend their church for 20 years, and I'm not a member of their church. I received their endorsement, which did not mean that I endorsed their views."

But that sounds like they just endorsed him out of the blue, and that isn't accurate. He had to know and he went after their support.

Waiting to reject them suggests that he was torn politically. He fears losing too many on the right--not that they will vote for Obama, but they might stay home--and yet also had to know he would lose people in the middle by recruiting Islamophobic crazies.