I agree 100% with everything you just said.
Thank you!
Free Republic is becoming a haven for Jeffersonian enlightenment rationalists, Randian capitalists, and evolutionist devotees of sense-phenomena-as-the-full-extent-of-reality. It seems Pat Robertson-bashing is simply the latest manifestation of this.
I don't share the man's religious beliefs (being a Noachide), but these attacks on him are utterly unfair and I will not stand by in silence.