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I agree that the focus here should be on Robertson alone. It really doesn't matter what you think of Chavez or what you think of the Bush administration's foreign policy.
Here we have perhaps the most powerful Religious Right leader in the country advocating the assassination of a Democratically elected foreign leader.
This is a man who purports to be a Christian, a man who asserts a moral superiority over those who don't interpret the Bible the way he does.
The temptation is to dismiss him as an extremist, but this is a man who came close to winning the Republican Presidential nomination in 1988.
This is not the first time he's made outrageous statements like this and yet he continues to hold tremendous power in the Republican Party. I think he is a good example of how extreme the Republicans have become.
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