Despite his call for the U.S. to win the “hearts and minds of the Islamic world,” Sen. John McCain recruited the support of an evangelical minister who describes Islam as “anti-Christ” and Mohammed as “the mouthpiece of a conspiracy of spiritual evil.”

McCain sought the support of Pastor Rod Parsley of the World Harvest Church of Columbus, Ohio who he described as “one of the truly great leaders in America, a moral compass, a spiritual guide”, hopefully because of Parsley’s well-established denunciations of the Islamic faith in a book “Silent No More” and on DVDs of sermons about Islam, rather than in spite of them.

This could change my whole view of John McCain. If he’s sincere about battling Islam, this would be great news indeed. George Bush Junior likes to hold hands with King Abdullah and have him stay at the Texas ranch, while King Abdullah pours billions into the perversion and subjugation of America to Islam, corrupting our schools and building mosques all over Hell and gone.

“Islam is an anti-Christ religion that intends through violence to conquer the world,” Parsley says on the DVDs reviewed by ABC News.

“America was founded with the intention of seeing this false religion destroyed,” Parsley says, “and I believe Sept. 11, 2001 was a generational call to arms that we can no longer ignore.”

Parsley’s views and his connection to the McCain campaign are now beginning to show up on Arab Web sites and newspapers.

Al Moheet, a regional Arabic Web site operating in Egypt, carries the story with a picture of McCain and the headline: “McCain’s Spiritual Adviser Calls for the Destruction of Islam.” McCain has repeatedly urged the U.S. to show respect for Islam. “Our goal must be to win the ‘hearts and minds’ of the vast majority of moderate Muslims who do not want their future controlled by a minority of violent extremists,” McCain told the World Affairs Council in Los Angeles on March 26.

Whether this is just political blather or not is the problem here. If McCain would stand up and say that he agrees with the pastor, that would make all the difference in the world. As it is now, all the worlds muslims already see him as an enemy and his “hearts and minds” crap is just that. Crap, and they know it. The minister is clear that there are no “moderate” muslims, as I’ve been saying for years, and McCain needs to take a stand on this issue instead of letting some minister dodge flak for him.

The most likely possibility here is that McCain simply used Rev. Parsley back when he was still campaigning in Ohio, to gain an edge over Huckabee and his religious posturing. I say most likely because the only mention of Parsley since is in the Arab media, where they’re still frothing over his accurate depiction of their evil cult.

Things like this are why I have my doubts. “Just a week ago, John McCain decried the decision to legalize gay marriage in California. Today you can catch him on TV chatting with Ellen DeGeneres, America’s foremost lesbian entertainer who within hours of the landmark ruling announced on air that she would marry her partner.”

“I wish her every happiness”, “She’s very popular. I’m a big fan of her and her show,” McCain said. Oh my God, John, you suck-ass son of a bitch.

McCain keeps coming off as just one more two-faced jerk politician. The only issue he’s been even halfway consistent on is staying in Iraq. Considering what that assinine war has done to wreck our economy and unite the goddam worlds muslims against us, that’s not politically very bright. The plain truth is that if you don’t mess with a hornets nest, the hornets won’t mess with you. Bin Laden and his band of Al Qaeda was not the whole Islamic world, and if we’d gone after him and only him, things would have been hokey dokey with the muslims. But Nooo, Bush saw the opportunity to make a try for Iraqs oil, blew it off, won’t admit his failure, and McCain wants to continue what was a bad effort to begin with.

It’s this sort of thing that has me preferring Clinton. At least, with her, the economy would be back on track and we’d be out of Iraq. None of them is my “best choice”. That’s Ron Paul.

I must feel like I’m drowning. I keep grasping at straws.