You're asking me why a lot of people who will be voting listen to him? I don't know. You'll have to ask them.
I do know he has a long-running show (The 700 Club) that is probably seen by about a million people. He founded the Christian Coalition, which used to be pretty powerful. He founded a university. He can certainly influence a number of voters. From that standpoint, whether you agree with his positions or not, he is relevant to the race. Just like Ralph Nader is relevant.
I guess the part I don't get is that Robertson has a history of saying things that can only be classified as CRAZY and I don't understand how his "followers" can overlook this stuff but maybe they're just a little bit nutty too.
Here's a few of pearls of wisdom from The Rev:
"(T)he feminist agenda is not about equal rights for women. It is about a socialist, anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians."
Pat Robertson, 1992 Fund Raising Letter "You say you're supposed to be nice to the Episcopalians and the Presbyterians and the Methodists and this, that, and the other thing. Nonsense. I don't have to be nice to the spirit of the Antichrist. I can love the people who hold false opinions but I don't have to be nice to them." Pat Robertson, "
The 700 Club," January 14, 1991"Many of those people involved with Adolf Hitler were Satanists, many of them were homosexuals--the two things seem to go together." Pat Robertson, "
The 700 Club," January 21, 1993"Just like what Nazi Germany did to the Jews, so liberal America is now doing to the evangelical Christians. It's no different. It is the same thing. It is happening all over again. It is the Democratic Congress, the liberal-based media and the homosexuals who want to destroy the Christians. Wholesale abuse and discrimination and the worst bigotry directed toward any group in America today. More terrible than anything suffered by any minority in history."
Pat Robertson, 1993 interview with Molly Ivins "[Homosexuals] want to come into churches and disrupt church services and throw blood all around and try to give people AIDS and spit in the face of ministers."
Pat Robertson, "The 700 Club," January 18, 1995"[The National Organization for Women] is saying that in order to be a woman, you've got to be a lesbian."
Pat Robertson, "
The 700 Club," December 3, 1997"Maybe we need a very small nuke thrown off on Foggy Bottom (
home of the State Department) to shake things up."
Pat Robertson, "The 700 Club," June 2003 "I'd like to say to the good citizens of Dover: if there is a disaster in your area, don't turn to God, you just rejected Him from your city… And don't wonder why He hasn't helped you when problems begin, if they begin. I'm not saying they will, but if they do, just remember, you just voted God out of your city. And if that's the case, don't ask for His help because he might not be there."
Pat Robertson, "The 700 Club," Nov. 9, 2005 
