McCain spent a huge amount of political capital attacking Christian right leaders and then turned on a dime and proceeded to curry their favor, so McCain a) agrees or 2) is utterly cynical. He wants Hagee's endorsement but issues weasely disavowals of Hagee's exaggerated bigotry.

For her part, Clinton maintains to this day, according to journalists Jeff Sharlet and Katherine Joyce, an ongoing relationship with The Fellowship, whose head Doug Coe is on record, multiple times, enthusing over the political strength inherent to expressions of fascism such as Hitler's.