Well, see, it wasn't particularly a discussion about religion itself. No one particularly cares what denomination Hagee is or even what Wright was; you'll notice the discussion of his racialist heresies are largely confined to left-wing blogs and right-wing magazines. It's the things they said, divorced from the "context" of the religion, that got people riled up.
That said, I still don't recognize equivalence between the two men or the respective candidates. It should be pointed out that McCain didn't patronize this church for decades, didn't donate huge quantities of money to it, didn't rely on its pastor for advice, didn't waste time qualifying his relationship to it with needless yammering about "context" and statements like "it's not particularly controversial" when he'd heard about it (or at least when the media heard about it), and didn't give a big speech to explain everything that had nothing to do with it.
And let's say, for a moment, that he had done all these things (which, being the worst case scenario, would still only make him equally as bad as Obama). Are you saying it's fundamentally not right for conservatives to have talked about the heretical racism of Obama's church, and that they should have let it go for simple reasons of political expediency?
In a nutshell, what it amounts to is that the media has gotten side-tracked into focusing on relatively trivial things. The Wright circus was basically pushed by the right, because the right doesn't care to talk about issues like the economy, the Iraq mess, the housing crisies, or the nearly fifty million Americans without health insurance.That's because they don't have solutions to ANY of it. it's easier to just say,"Hey, look over there, reverend Wright," or, "Hey, Obama's not wearing a flag pen, he must be "UNAMERICAN!" Or, "I heard Obama's a Muslim.You know, Obama, Osama, they sound a lot alike, they must be related."
It's pretty transparent, and I don't see it working this time, though it has in the past..People are wising up, at long last.Of course, it took an idiot like Bush to screw everything up, but better late than never..
The Hagee circus is the same thing, and personally, I couldn't care less who supports McCain. McCain actively sought his support, though, which doesn't say much for his ability to screen the folks he seeks endorsements from, which doesn't say much about his judgement. So much for the value of "experience.."
Had Wright not been turned into a talking point by the RW and later the mainstream media, I doubt that most people would even be aware of Hagee. That's why people who live in glass houses shouldn't be throwing stones.