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Rudy, Christ
19 January 2008If Giuliani pulls off a miracle and wins Florida, the press will pay attention to "America's [self-proclaimed] mayor" again. Until then, only hometown rags like the Daily News are watching Rudy's reinvention as a holy fool. For observers of religion and media, though, Giuliani's transparently phony God-pandering -- no New Yorker will buy it for a second -- should be of interest regardless, as a marker of just how institutionalized the evangelical vote has become. That's not to say it's monolithic or even stable, only that even the most irreligious of candidates -- and there's nobody in this race, Democrat or Republican, farther from God than Giuliani -- feels compelled to declare his adoration of the American god.
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